Ocalan’s unprecedented statement on February 27 urging the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to disarm and disband raised hopes among Turkey’s Kurdish citizens that Turkish President Recep ...

In October, Devlet Bahceli, leader of Turkey’s ... Following Ocalan’s message, the PKK declared a unilateral ceasefire but set their leader’s release from prison as a precondition to laying ...

The head of Turkey's main opposition party has visited ... People's Party (CHP), held a two-hour meeting with İmamoğlu at Silivri Prison, west of Istanbul. Özel told reporters that he was ...

He wrote from Silivri Prison, outside the city ... not of the elected mayor of Istanbul, Turkey’s largest city. The move — four days before my party, the Republican People’s Party, held ...

Umit Bektas/Reuters Supported by By Ben Hubbard Reporting from Istanbul Turkey has been plunged into a political crisis after the authorities arrested Ekrem Imamoglu, the mayor of Istanbul and the ...

Nearly 1,900 people have been arrested so far, officials said. A week-long protest erupted in Turkey following the arrest of Istanbul’s Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, the president’s top political rival.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been running Turkey for 22 years, and has spent much of that time eroding its democracy. His government controls the courts, the security apparatus and almost all the media.

University students sit next to anti riot police officers during a protest after Istanbul's Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu was arrested and sent to prison, in Istanbul, Turkey, Monday, March 24, 2025.

Separately, two journalists who covered the anti-government protests in Istanbul were detained early on Friday, the Journalists' Union of Turkey said. The detention of the journalists came a day ...

The recent arrest of Istanbul's Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu and main rival of President Erdoğan has sparked the largest protests in Turkey in a decade, with over 1,100 people detained in ...