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Hundreds of people were arrested in Istanbul, 50,000 police officers and the authorities tried to disrupt the protests on May on May.
Public transport was closed to stop people reaching Taksim Square, where demonstrations have been banned since 2013.
Imagers from the Turkish capital, riot police and protesters showed protesters with demonstrators with protesters and detainees with the protesters as he forcibly moved the buses.
The city was protested in March after the arrest of the opposition Mayor Akram Imamoglu – the main opponent to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Each year, the marches led by employees and associations on May 1 Many countries are held within the framework of the celebrations of the International Labor Day.
Taksim Square – The heart of Istanbul – was under a close lock with police and metal barriers along all the ways leading to the area.
Authorities, perhaps more this year, have not had big protests in the square, and there were enough flexible police to make sure.
Square, normally, in silence, the shutdown, restaurant and shops.
Was with the former path of police lines. Several employed trade union red posters and flowers were allowed in Taksim for a short time.
In 1923, reminiscent of the establishment of modern Turkey, he complained to the restrictions that stand in front of the Republican monument and a dynamic facility. The trucks with a water canon parked a short distance.
On the roads, tourist groups, tourist walks, dragging the suitcases, not sure that they could go and reach the taxis.
According to AFP news agency, sealed on the square several days before May 1.
A student named Murat said the streets were “blocked … as if there was an emergency.”
“We are not allowed to squares … We were taken from the streets in small groups under our torture. It is not a situation we face for the first time. It probably will not last.”
100 people allegedly planned to protest the square on Wednesday were detained.
The urban authorities said 382 people were arrested for “competent demonstrations” on Thursday.
The Group of Rights Amnesty International called on Turkey to ban the demonstrations in Taksim.
Restrictions are “completely fake security and social law enforcement ground,” Dinushika Dissanayake, Amnesty’s European specialist.
In the statement, the group called the right to protest against officials and called “force against peaceful protesters.”
In March, the arrest of Ekrem imamğlu, Hundreds of thousands of democracy prospts on the streets of Istanbul, Istanbul mayor was in prison on corruption.
He said his arrest was political, but this government insists that this is completely independent of Turkish courts.
The mayor has been widely considered as the only politician who has difficult to Erdogan in the 2028 elections since 2019. Imamoglu was confirmed as a candidate of the opposition party while in control.
Erdogan for the first time, as the Prime Minister as the Prime Minister as the Prime Minister for 20 years. After 2028, he cannot re-work for the presidential – unless it changes the constitution of Turkey.
