{"id":98013,"date":"2026-06-02T17:18:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T17:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/98013\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T17:18:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T17:18:15","slug":"turkish-police-detain-24-people-at-ankara-protest-marking-gezi-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/98013\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish police detain 24 people at Ankara protest marking Gezi anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Turkish police detained<\/a> 24 people in Ankara on Monday while breaking up a demonstration marking the 13th anniversary of the Gezi Park protests and commemorating Ethem Sar\u0131s\u00fcl\u00fck, who was killed by a police officer during the 2013 unrest.<\/p>\n

Demonstrators attempted to march<\/a> toward G\u00fcvenpark, where Sar\u0131s\u00fcl\u00fck was shot, but police sealed off the square with barricades and allowed only his family and lawyer to enter before dispersing the crowd with tear gas, the BirG\u00fcn daily reported.<\/p>\n

Those detained included Mezopotamya News Agency reporter Sema Bing\u00f6l, members of the Sol (Left) Party\u2019s Central Executive Board and Party Assembly and executives from the Confederation of Public Employees Trade Unions (KESK).<\/p>\n

Two detainees were released on Monday evening due to health problems, while Bing\u00f6l and five others were released<\/a> on Tuesday after giving statements to the police. The remaining 16 were referred to an Ankara courthouse to give testimony to prosecutors.<\/p>\n

The Gezi Park protests began in \u0130stanbul in May 2013 over government plans to demolish the park near Taksim Square and quickly spread nationwide, drawing millions who denounced what they viewed as then-prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan\u2019s increasingly authoritarian rule.<\/p>\n

The protests were violently suppressed, leaving at least seven demonstrators dead and thousands injured, while hundreds of people were later prosecuted. Erdo\u011fan subsequently labelled them as a \u201ccoup attempt\u201d against him<\/p>\n

Police officer Ahmet \u015eahbaz, who fatally shot Sar\u0131s\u00fcl\u00fck, was initially sentenced in 2014 to more than seven years in prison for intentional killing under provocation. After two retrials, \u015eahbaz was sentenced to more than two years in prison, which was converted into a fine of 15,200 Turkish lira (about $2,600).<\/p>\n

Several people remain imprisoned in connection with the protests, including philanthropist and businessman Osman Kavala<\/a>, human rights lawyer and former Workers Party of Turkey (T\u0130P) lawmaker Can Atalay<\/a>, journalist and film producer \u00c7i\u011fdem Mater<\/a>, city planner Tayfun Kahraman<\/a>, filmmaker Mine \u00d6zerden and talent manager Ay\u015fe Bar\u0131m<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Turkish police detained 24 people in Ankara on Monday while breaking up a demonstration marking the 13th anniversary…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[83],"tags":[50674,50675,32578,50676,36391,31430,50677,131,132,2980,155],"class_list":["post-98013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-stockholm","tag-ahmet-sahbaz","tag-ethem-sarisuluk","tag-gezi-park-protest","tag-guvenpark","tag-right-to-peaceful-demonstration","tag-sema-bingol","tag-sol-party","tag-stockholm","tag-sweden","tag-the-confederation-of-public-employees-trade-unions-kesk","tag-turkey"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116681658063322881","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98013","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=98013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}