{"id":74695,"date":"2026-05-04T21:09:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T21:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/74695\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T21:09:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T21:09:16","slug":"turkey-releases-more-than-500-may-day-protesters-detained-in-istanbul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/74695\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey releases more than 500 May Day protesters detained in \u0130stanbul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/stockholmcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/May-Day-detentions.jpeg\" data-caption=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- alt=\"\" title=\"May Day detentions\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/May-Day-detentions-696x392.jpeg\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/May-Day-detentions-696x392.jpeg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"May Day detentions\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Turkish authorities have released more than 500 protesters detained at May Day rallies in \u0130stanbul, <a href=\"https:\/\/turkishminute.com\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/turkishminute.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Turkish Minute<\/a> reported, citing Agence France-Presse.<\/p>\n<p>Police on Friday broke up demonstrations with tear gas and detained hundreds of people.<\/p>\n<p>All 576 detainees were released by Saturday morning, including union official Ba\u015faran Aksu, the Progressive Lawyers Association (\u00c7HD) said on X.<\/p>\n<p>The association\u2019s \u0130stanbul branch had deployed members across the city to document detentions and provide legal assistance to those held in custody.<\/p>\n<p>The \u0130stanbul Governor\u2019s Office put the number of detentions at 575.<\/p>\n<p>Another 47 people were detained on April 28 ahead of the planned May Day rallies, four of whom were arrested and nine put under house arrest, \u00c7HD said.<\/p>\n<p>The demonstrations were concentrated around Taksim Square, which authorities have closed to rallies since a wave of anti-government protests in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Aksu had condemned the authorities for blocking access to the square, a symbolic site often used for mass gatherings in Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t close off a square to the workers of Turkey,\u201d he said shortly before his detention.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone uses Taksim, for official ceremonies, for celebrations. Only the laborers, the workers, the poor find the square closed to them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>May 1, which marks International Workers\u2019 Day, brings a large police deployment in Turkey every year, with a large area in the heart of \u0130stanbul sealed off.<\/p>\n<p>Trade unions and civil society groups had called for the May Day rallies under the slogan \u201cBread. Peace. Freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Turkish authorities have released more than 500 protesters detained at May Day rallies in \u0130stanbul, Turkish Minute reported,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[32533,312,38373,38374,429,11439,36391,131,132,37947,155],"class_list":{"0":"post-74695","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-stockholm","8":"tag-basaran-aksu","9":"tag-human-rights","10":"tag-international-workers-day","11":"tag-may-day-demonstrations","12":"tag-oppression","13":"tag-progressive-lawyers-association-chd","14":"tag-right-to-peaceful-demonstration","15":"tag-stockholm","16":"tag-sweden","17":"tag-taksim-square","18":"tag-turkey"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116518359327304741","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}