Over a decade ago Turkey’s strongman compared a wave of protests, which began with calls to save a popular Istanbul park from ...

Opponents say President Recep Tayyip Erdogan manipulates the courts and the media to tighten his grip on power, and now is ...

Ekrem Imamoglu was detained in a dawn raid on his official residence last week. On Sunday, a court ordered him to be jailed ...

Imamoglu was elected mayor of Istanbul in 2019 and triumphantly re-elected last year. By winning Turkey’s largest city ...

The length and terms of the sentence have not yet been disclosed, fueling speculation and concern across political circles ...

Güler Sabancı, chairperson of Sabancı Holding, one of Türkiye's biggest conglomerates, will step down from her role and ...

Berk Esen, a political scientist at Istanbul’s Sabanci University, said the CHP’s decision to confirm Imamoglu as its presidential candidate for 2028 was key to his arrest. “Erdogan was ...

The arrests came on the heels of mounting anger over the March 19 detention of İmamoğlu, who was taken into custody following a large-scale security operation involving more than 3,000 police officers ...