Christmas means business as usual in Istanbul -- although anyone who still ... will still play Christmas music in the lobby. Shopping malls and big department stores are also famous for using ...

Turkiye’s Istanbul University has annulled Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu’s diploma, citing irregularities with Council of Higher Education regulations and threatening his chances of running in the 2028 ...

The opposition said the arrest was politically motivated. By Ben Hubbard and Safak Timur Reporting from Istanbul Turkey arrested the top political rival of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on ...

Thousands later spilled onto the streets of Istanbul in protest. Imamoglu of the main opposition CHP is President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's main political rival and his detention came just days ...

Some protestors clashed with police in Ankara, Izmir and Istanbul, including at universities, and many rallied at a municipal headquarters in Istanbul after authorities erected barricades blocking ...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Ekrem Imamoglu, the mayor of Istanbul and a popular figure, had basked in the glow of what he often jokingly dubbed his political miracle — the only person to have beaten ...

Imamoglu's rise in politics has drawn parallels to Erdogan's own trajectory, as both have led Istanbul, hail from Turkey's Black Sea region, and encountered legal barriers that threatened their ...

Protests that erupted across Turkey following the arrest of Istanbul's opposition mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu have taken on a new dimension with calls for a one-day shopping boycott. The student groups ...

Riot police use tear gas to disperse protesters gathering in front of the Aqueduct of Valens during a rally in support of Istanbul's arrested mayor, in Istanbul on Sunday. (Yasin Akgul/AFP/Getty ...

By Ben Hubbard and Safak Timur Reporting from Istanbul One week after the Turkish government arrested the mayor of Istanbul, who is the top rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the political ...

Turkish authorities detained 343 people during overnight protests in more than a dozen cities against the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, Interior Ministry said on Saturday. Arrests were ...

Turkey has detained over 1,100 people — including 10 journalists reportedly arrested Monday morning — since mass protests were sparked on March 19 by the arrest of Istanbul's popular Mayor ...