More than 1,100 people, including some journalists, were detained in protests against Turkish President Erdogan after the ...

Ekrem Imamoglu, the mayor of Istanbul and a popular figure, had boasted jokingly that he was the only person to have beaten Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling party in three local elections ANKARA, Turkey ...

The head of Turkey’s main opposition party has visited jailed Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu after six nights of massive ...

China's military said it had conducted a patrol in the South China Sea on Friday, the day U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reaffirmed Washington's commitment to Manila, which disputes some of ...

Mr. Imamoglu has denied the charges, calling them politically motivated. Many people have accused the government of using the courts to sideline a perceived political threat to Mr. Erdogan ...

Critics say the arrest of Istanbul's mayor is part of a mounting crackdown by Turkey's president to silence all dissent.

In a separate message, Imamoglu’s wife Dilek said that “those who do not want to lose in the next ballot box have made this move,” referring to Erdogan and his camp. Imamoglu, one of Turkey ...

Political opposition leader and Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu was in Turkish police custody Wednesday after he was arrested days before being chosen as the presidential candidate for the Republican ...

In a message posted on social media, Imamoglu called on people to show “their struggle for democracy and justice to the entire world” at the ballot box. He warned Erdogan that he would be ...

Imamoglu was elected mayor of Istanbul in 2019 ... Realizing he cannot defeat me at the ballot box, Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has resorted to other means: having his main ...

Ekrem Imamoglu, Erdogan’s most serious political rival, was arrested at his home on Wednesday just days before he was to be registered as a candidate in the 2028 presidential election.

Mr. Imamoglu has denied the charges and vowed to fight them in court. The opposition has called his arrest a “coup” aimed at blocking a challenge to Mr. Erdogan. Turkey is officially a ...