Istanbul Municipality cuts trees of Gezi Park 2017-08-03 13:27:42 İSTANBUL- 15 trees of Gezi Park were cut by employee of Istanbul Municipality. It was reported workers of Istanbul Municipality had cut around 15 trees of Gezi Park. Citizen reacted to workers and citizen was told ‘We just cut trees which has already dead” said. But according to citizen trees were not dead. Meanwhile CHP (Republic People Party) lawmaker Tuncay Özkan ‘ Trees massacre in Gezi Park. Why are they trying to provocate people? Why are those trees disturbing you?” told via his twitter account.