A Turkish court has convicted Istanbul’s jailed opposition mayor of insulting and threatening a public official.

Turkey’s top opposition leader and Istanbul mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu was sentenced to one year and eight months in prison for allegedly insulting and threatening a city prosecutor.

ISTANBUL (Reuters) -An Istanbul court on Wednesday sentenced Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, the main rival of Turkey's ...

Turkey's CHP faces charges of corruption and terrorism links, leading to detentions and arrests of members, including 14 ...

Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu received a prison sentence for insulting the chief prosecutor, marking his second conviction ...

A Turkish court has formally arrested Istanbul's Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu and kept him in jail pending his trial on corruption charges. Imamoglu was detained following a raid on his residence earlier ...

A Turkish court jailed Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu on Sunday pending trial on graft charges, state media and other broadcasters said, in a move likely to stoke the country’s biggest protests ...

Ekrem Imamoglu, the mayor of Istanbul and a popular figure, had boasted jokingly that he was the only person to have beaten Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruling party in three local elections.

Ekrem Imamoglu, at the forefront of opposition against Erdogan, rose to prominence after he first won the Istanbul mayoral election in March 2019, albeit by a narrow margin.

Ekrem Imamoglu shockingly won the city’s mayoralty in part by wooing the lower and middle-income voters who had powered President Erdogan’s rise. By Carlotta Gall Erdogan Faces Fallout After ...

Ekrem Imamoglu, candidate of the secular opposition Republican People's Party, or CHP, waves to their supporters outside a polling station in Istanbul, Sunday, June 23, 2019.

People are protesting a court ruling to sentence Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu to prison and bar him from politics for two-plus years. He's seen as a key challenger to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.