May Day celebrations banned in Turkey's Taksim Square again

After a recent contact of head of Turkey’s Confederation of Progressive Unions (DİSK), Kani Beko, with the Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu, it has been reported that İstanbul’s Taksim Square will be closed to May Day celebrations again.

Symbolic of large scale public demonstrations and celebrations, including the May 1st Labor and Solidarity Day, İstanbul’s busy Taksim Square had been closed to May Day celebrations for decades after the Bloody May Day of 1977, which still remains as a case suppressed and partly covered.

Having been opened again in 2010, the Square was crowded by hundreds of thousands for the following few years on May Day and celebrations took place in joy, until it was again decided by government officials in 2013 – shortly before Gezi Park protests - for this famous Square adjacent to Gezi Park to be closed to May Day demonstrations.

Source: https://www.birgun.net/haber-detay/taksim-1-mayis-ta-yine-emekcilere-kapali-156728.html