More than 400 people who participated in May Day celebrations were arrested today in Istanbul, where part of the city has paralyzed to prevent rallies at Taksim Square, a Bar Association said. As the Constantinople Branch of the Union of Progressive Lawyers (CHD) told X, the number of arrests exceeds 400. Authorities did not immediately provide information. AFP journalists witnessed dozens of arrests in the Besiktas and Metzidieki districts in the European sector, where police excluded the roads leading to Taksim Square. Video | 1312: #Mayday2025, Istanbul-Turkey. pic.twitter.com/DSACJTGJRP – ANTIFA_ULTRAS (@ULTRAS_ANTIFAA) May 1, 2025 with a few exceptions, gatherings are banned at this huge coastal avenue, theater of important struggles for democracy in the past, since the demonstrations that started in the nearby park in 2013. In previous years, police had blocked the square for several days. Amnesty International Non -Government Organization denounced Wednesday the arrest of more […]
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