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Prosecutors launch investigation of Ankara Municipality over concert payments

Amid ongoing protests over the arrest of İstanbul’s popular mayor, Ekrem İmamoğlu, Turkish prosecutors have launched an investigation into the opposition-run Ankara Municipality over...

Students boycott classes, fill streets in protest of İstanbul mayor’s arrest

Thousands of university students across Turkey have begun boycotting classes, protesting the arrest of İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu and what they call an erosion...

Turkish police detain 10 journalists in home raids over protest coverage

Turkish police on Monday detained 10 journalists in early morning home raids for covering days-long violent protests in İstanbul and other cities against the...

Turkey detains more than 1,100 in protests over mayor’s arrest

Police have detained more than 1,100 people, officials said Monday -- including journalists -- since the detention and subsequent arrest of President Recep Tayyip...

Turkish gov’t wants more than 700 X accounts blocked: platform

Turkey's authorities, faced with a mass opposition movement following the detention of the opposition mayor of İstanbul, have called for the closure of more...

Protesters rally as defiant İmamoğlu jailed in graft probe

İstanbul's embattled Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu vowed to fight on despite being suspended from office and jailed on Sunday, in developments that have sparked Turkey's...

İstanbul’s jailed mayor: What we know

A court on Sunday ordered the jailing of İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu and several co-defendants on corruption charges, sparking outrage from Turkey’s main opposition...

İstanbul Mayor İmamoğlu defiant after suspension from office and arrest

İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu vowed to continue his political fight after being jailed in a corruption investigation and suspended from office Sunday, developments that...

Turkish court arrests İstanbul mayor in graft probe amid protests

A Turkish court formally placed İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu under arrest as part of a corruption investigation Sunday, after a fourth night of mass...

In Erdoğan’s Turkey, young protesters demand freedom

“The people governing us are violating our rights,” said Ara Yıldırım, a medical student in İstanbul, as Turkey braces for a fourth day of...

Huge crowds protest in İstanbul as mayor questioned by prosecutors

Huge crowds gathered outside İstanbul City Hall on Saturday for a fourth night of protests over the detention of Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, who told...

More than 340 detained after mass protests in Turkey

More than 340 people were detained following Turkey’s biggest street protests in over a decade, sparked by the detention of the mayor of İstanbul,...

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