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People raise their mobile phones as they gather outside the City Hall to protest the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu in Istanbul, Turkey, Wednesday, March 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco ...

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Built as Byzantium, and then renamed Constantinople, Istanbul officially received its present name on this day in 1930.

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Some of my most vivid memories from my first visit to Istanbul in the 1970s are of the colorful locals. Scruffy kids sold cherry juice, and old men would grab huge cucumbers from wheeled carts, then ...

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Protests in Turkey are ramping up after the detention of Istanbul’s mayor Ekrem Imamoglu. Imamoglu was detained facing charges including graft and aiding a terrorist group. NBC News' Matt ...

ISTANBUL—Thousands of people gathered at Istanbul’s city hall for a second night Thursday to rally against the arrest of the city’s mayor, which many see as a politically driven attempt to ...

Arrests were made in Turkey's largest city, Istanbul, the capital, Ankara, as well as Izmir, Adana, Antalya, Konya and several others. "There will be no tolerance for those who seek to violate ...

On Friday, police in Istanbul used pepper spray, tear gas and rubber bullets to push back hundreds of protesters who tried to break through a barricade in front of the city’s historic aqueduct ...