The arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu brought rare unity among Turkey’s opposition — energy his party hopes will help ...

Imamoglu’s arrest comes just days after he was confirmed as the Republican People’s Party (CHP) nominee for Turkey’s 2028 presidential election. Related News X says Turkey wants over 700 ...

The arrests put Turkey on the path that Russia has traveled over the past two decades, in which a democratically elected ...

Turkey started hastily organized mass trials on Friday to prosecute some of the hundreds of people who took part in the ...

with Mr. Imamoglu ousted from his position and jailed hours before Turkey’s main opposition party designated him its candidate in the next presidential election. Mr. Imamoglu has denied the ...

A Turkish court has ordered Turkey’s leading candidate to challenge the country’s long-running president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, held in jail on corruption charges amid voting Sunday to elect Mr.

Watch: Istanbul mayor says he's 'facing intimidation' in video message Protests have erupted in Turkey after ... minister before that. The only way Erdogan could contest another election would ...

Though elections are not due ... the weekend on corruption charges before he could launch his presidential bid, which has been challenged in recent weeks after his alma mater Istanbul University ...

After the arrest of Istanbul's ... explaining that Erdogan "wanted to act before a clash in the election campaign." Esen says Turkey is no longer a "competitive authoritarian" regime, in which ...

Last week, after nearly a quarter-century of taking Turkey on ... came just days before the CHP was planning to name him as their candidate for the next presidential election, officially scheduled ...

The decision to send Imamoglu to jail comes after the main opposition ... then let them call for an early election." No general election is scheduled until 2028. But if Erdogan, 71, who has led Turkey ...