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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

After Turkey's President Erdogan arrested Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, stocks and the national currency have plummeted. Erdogan is now desperately trying to calm the market turmoil. https://p.dw ...

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.

A court formally arrested the mayor of Istanbul, a key rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on Sunday and ordered him jailed pending the outcome of a trial on corruption charges.Mayor Ekrem ...