The recent arrest of Istanbul’s Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu has escalated political conflicts within Turkey and critically ...

The ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) on Thursday lambasted the main opposition party for what it called the ...

Events in Turkey show how leaders can weaken secularism, concentrate power and criminalise the opposition within a political ...

As hundreds of thousands of people gathered in Istanbul on Saturday to demand İmamoglu’s release, President Erdoğan, the ...

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan lashed out at the opposition CHP in the toughest criticism over the latter’s incitement of ...

Many view the detention of Ekrem Imamoglu as a political move designed to remove him from the 2028 presidential race - ...

Yet to interpret this solely as a political shift is to miss the deeper story: the transformation of the Turkish soul. The ...

Türkiye’s future hinges not just on who governs but on whether its democracy can still offer a fair and open contest for power, which President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan must note ...

Turkey’s president has accused the political opposition of “sinking the economy” during the country’s largest protests in ...

Omer Celik, the spokesman of Erdogan’s ruling Justice and Development Party, disputed allegations by the opposition that the detentions were government-orchestrated and urged respect for the ...

Imamoglu had vowed to challenge the decision.Imamoglu was elected mayor of Turkey’s largest city in March 2019, a major blow to Erdogan and the president’s Justice and Development Party ...