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

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

Turkish authorities have detained the mayor of Istanbul's Beyoglu district and about 40 other officials. Inan Guney of the ...

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 ...

The imprisonment of Istanbul’s opposition mayor has come at a time when Turkey finds itself at the center of geopolitical turmoil that observers say has freed President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to ...

The June 23 result is remarkably similar to Erdogan’s own unexpected victory as a little-known candidate in the Istanbul mayoral election of 1994, which set him and his followers on the path to ...

The opposition's mayoral win in Istanbul, Turkey, was a rebuke for President Erdogan—and a sign that many are fed up, Ian Bremmer writes.

Mr Erdogan’s projects are not wholly to blame; indeed some, such as the new AKM, are to be welcomed. But what Istanbul needs, more than shopping malls or mega mosques, is some room to breathe.

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 ...