The Taksim Military Barracks or Halil Pasha Artillery Barracks ( or ''Halil Paşa Topçu Kışlası'') were located at the site of the present-day

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. It was built in 1806. During the 31 March Incident in 1909, the Barracks building suffered considerable damage, and waited to be repaired. Its internal courtyard was later transformed into the

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in 1921, and became the first

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in Turkey, used by all major football clubs in the city, including Beşiktaş J.K.,

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and Fenerbahçe S.K. The stadium was closed in 1939, and demolished in 1940, during the construction and renovation works of Taksim Square and Taksim Gezi Park in accordance with the plans of French architect and

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Henri Prost.

Reconstruction

On 16 September 2011, the assembly of the

Metropolitan Municipality decided to rebuild the structure; despite the area falling within the purview of green space protection ordinances. Development interests were regarded by many of exploiting statutes protecting historic structures in order to trump green space protection. The proposed rebuilt barracks were intended to be a shopping center incorporating cultural centres, an opera house and a mosque and containing no surviving portion of the barracks that existed on the site. The reconstruction of the barracks was met by protests in Istanbul; after police brutality against initial protestors, this evolved into the nationwide 2013–14 protests in Turkey, also known as the Gezi Park protests.

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Hayal-et Project represents Taksim Military Barracks
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