In the few weeks since the jailing of Turkey's opposition heavyweight Ekrem Imamoglu, Ozgur Ozel has become the face of the ...

By forcing the Istanbul mayor out of politics, the government has crossed the line that separates Turkey’s competitive ...

The head of Turkey's main opposition party has demanded that elections be held "at the latest in November" following the ...

A Turkish court jailed Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu on Sunday pending trial, CNN affiliate CNN Turk reported, as mass protests have broken out across the country against his detention over ...

The jailing of Istanbul’s mayor pending his trial on corruption charges has stoked worries that President Recep Tayyip ...

The arrest of a political rival to Recep Tayyip Erdogan is the final step in his evolution from illiberal democrat to autocrat ...

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

After purging the judiciary, cracking down on the media, and jailing political opponents, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ...

The detention of Istanbul's popular mayor risks undermining Turkey's move to end the PKK militant group's 40-year-old ...

Demonstrations took place in more than a dozen cities—including the country's largest, Istanbul, and its capital, Ankara. Turkey's Interior ... Işık, the head of the Bosphorus Observer ...