Erdogan has branded the protests “street terrorism”. Turkey’s extended ban now applies to the country's three largest cities – Istanbul, Izmir and the capital, Ankara – while the latest ...

Ekrem Imamoglu, mayor of Istanbul, has been jailed on corruption charges. Since then, there have been days of protests, leading to violent clashes between protestors and the authorities. Imamoglu ...

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new video loaded: What to Know About the Turmoil in Turkey Turkey was plunged into a political crisis after the authorities arrested Ekrem Imamoglu, mayor of Istanbul and a top rival to President ...

Thousands of protesters have gathered for a seventh night in Istanbul, in support of the detained mayor of the city, Ekrem Imamoglu Thousands of people in Turkey have turned out for a seventh ...

Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been running Turkey for 22 years, and has spent much of that time eroding its democracy. His government controls the courts, the security apparatus and almost all the media.

Europe treads carefully While Turkey's president says the widespread protests — which included clashes with police — are a "movement of violence," France's foreign ministry has branded the ...

Erdoğan has been running Turkey since 2003, and he has maintained his hold on power, in part, by cracking down on political opponents and on the media. Some of those opponents come from Turkey ...

While the economist kept going with the presentation, the guests kept waiting for the country’s state-run lenders to start selling more dollars — the Central Bank of Turkey’s typical method ...

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Subscribe to the Daily News Brief to receive it every weekday morning. The latest from Turkey. The events underscored both the widespread public support for İmamoğlu and the hurdles to his ...

When Turkey jailed Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s biggest rival at the weekend, thousands of protesters took to the streets. Notably less vocal were the country’s Western allies. The Turkish president ...