In exclusive comments, Ekrem Imamoglu said he still hopes to run for president — but he signals he expects a long legal ...

ANKARA: Turkish authorities detained the mayor of a key Istanbul district along with some 40 other officials on Friday, ...

In the five months since Turkey detained President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s top political rival, the authorities have arrested ...

Among those currently in prison is Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, President Tayyip Erdogan’s main political rival, who is ...

Imamoglu has emerged as the main challenger to Erdogan’s 22-year rule since he was elected mayor of Istanbul in 2019, overturning a quarter-century of rule by parties from Turkey’s ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has stretched his rule into a third decade after Sunday’s presidential election victory. His achievement, however, fell short of the city of Istanbul – a ...

Erdogan has previously signaled an unwillingness to work with an opposition mayor, saying his party controlled 25 of Istanbul’s 39 districts and a majority in the municipal assembly.

Presidents of Ukraine and Turkey Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Recep Tayyip Erdogan held a call at the request of the Ukrainian ...

After Erdogan signed the S-400 deal with Russia, American lawmakers and national security officials started rethinking Turkey’s role. Turkish pilots’ training sessions to operate the F-35 were ...

Erdogan “sidelined the one figure who might have been able to beat him, Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu,” wrote Soner Cagaptay, senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, in ...