By Ben Hubbard and Safak Timur Reporting from Istanbul Turkey’s largest opposition party is organizing rallies, urging boycotts of pro-government businesses and standing by its presidential ...
Umit Bektas/Reuters Supported by By Ben Hubbard Reporting from Istanbul Turkey has been plunged into a political crisis after the authorities arrested Ekrem Imamoglu, the mayor of Istanbul and the ...
Hundreds of people protested outside an Istanbul courthouse Saturday, calling for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to resign, as Turkey entered its fourth day of civil unrest. Violent clashes ...
Just days before Turkey’s main opposition party was set to select its next presidential candidate, the leading contender, Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, was arrested and jailed, effectively removing ...
Nearly 1,900 people have been arrested so far, officials said. A week-long protest erupted in Turkey following the arrest of Istanbul’s Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, the president’s top political rival.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been running Turkey for 22 years, and has spent much of that time eroding its democracy. His government controls the courts, the security apparatus and almost all the media.
A group of bipartisan House lawmakers are introducing legislation to redesignate Turkey as a Near Eastern country at the State Department, rather than a European country, as Ankara has moved away ...
Jailing of Istanbul mayor prompts biggest protests in a decade Opposition targets TV broadcasters, advertisers, media owners Accuses pro-government media of ignoring the protests Turkey ranks ...
Turkey lowered its benchmark one-week repo rate from 45% to 42.5% on Thursday. The decision came after official data showed annual inflation dipping below 40% for the first time in nearly two ...
The recent arrest of Istanbul's Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu and main rival of President Erdoğan has sparked the largest protests in Turkey in a decade, with over 1,100 people detained in ...
Perhaps Mr Witkoff was referring to America’s prospective sale of F-35 jets to Turkey, or to the country’s offer to mediate in Ukraine. But that he said nothing about the arrest on March 19th ...
Protests have been taking place across Turkey over the past week, including in the largest city Istanbul and the capital Ankara, amid anger over the jailing of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu ...