People wave flags of Turkey atop a garbage truck during a rally called by the Republican People's Party (CHP) in support of ...

The jailing of Istanbul’s mayor pending his trial on corruption charges has stoked worries that President Recep Tayyip ...

Supporters of the mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu, said that corruption charges against him were a ploy to hobble the main political ...

Protests erupted across multiple Turkish cities denouncing the arrest of the mayor of Istanbul even as President Recep Tayyip ...

On Sunday, a court formally arrested Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu and ordered him jailed pending a trial on corruption charges.

Imamoglu, arrested on March 19 on corruption charges, is seen as the main challenger to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ...

A Turkish court jailed Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu ... from appointing a trustee to run the country’s largest city. Imamoglu, who leads Erdogan in some polls, has denied the charges, calling ...

Erdogan started his political career as a mayor of Istanbul, a city of 16 million people that is often looked at politically and socially as a microcosm of Turkey. Turkish authorities denied the ...

Imamoglu was elected mayor of Turkey’s largest city in March 2019, a historic blow to Erdogan and the president’s Justice and Development Party, which had controlled Istanbul for a quarter-century.

Turkey’s president has accused the political opposition of “sinking the economy” during the country’s largest protests in ...

In Germany, home to millions of people with Turkish roots, it's a hot topic as well. DW reports from the western City of Cologne.