ISTANBUL, Turkey (AFP) — Waving flags and chanting slogans, hundreds of thousands of anti-government demonstrators rallied in Istanbul Saturday calling for democracy to be defended after the ...

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Katarina Barley, Vice President of the European Parliament, was among the delegation that visited the jailed politician in Istanbul's Silivri prison. A delegation from the European Union ...

Demonstrators flooded Istanbul's streets, heeding the call of Turkey's main opposition CHP party. The mass protests, ongoing since top CHP figure Ekrem Imamoglu's arrest, are among the biggest ...

Hundreds of thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators have returned to the streets of Istanbul, Turkey, to show support for the city's jailed mayor. Ekrem Imamoglu, who is seen as the main rival of ...

Separately, two journalists who covered the anti-government protests in Istanbul were detained early on Friday, the Journalists' Union of Turkey said. The detention of the journalists came a day ...

By Ben Hubbard and Safak Timur Reporting from Istanbul One week after the Turkish government arrested the mayor of Istanbul, who is the top rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the political ...

Students rallied against the jailing of Istanbul’s mayor, a key rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for a sixth night on Monday. The detention of Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu on Wednesday sparked ...

More than a thousand people have been detained during protests following the jailing of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said on Monday. In a post on X ...

Police seized more than 1,100 people objecting to the jailing of Presidential opposition hopeful, sacked Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu. In a major escalation at least eight reporters and ...

Tulin Dzhengiz research on the informal economy received funding from Manchester Metropolitan University. Turkey is in turmoil after Istanbul’s mayor, Ekrem İmamoğlu, a leading opposition ...