May

Turkish police on Sunday detained no fewer than 160 protesters who were trying to hold a May Day rally in defiance of a ban which was recently imposed by the governor’s office on workers in the country.

Images which were sighted on social media by Africa Daily News, New York on Monday showed riot police clashing with protesters very close to Istanbul’s Taksim Square, pinning some of them forcefully to the ground before rounding them up in a police car.

The Istanbul governor’s office confirmed that about 164 people were held after staging ‘an unauthorised rally’ and refusing to disperse …