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.

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 ...

ANKARA/BEIJING, March 26 (Reuters) - Turkey said on Wednesday that Chery Automobile's partners will invest $1 billion in a manufacturing facility in the country with an annual capacity to produce ...

Turkish graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk was detained by federal agents and had her student visa revoked after DHS said Homeland Security and ICE investigators found she “engaged in activities in ...

The scene resembled the capture of a terrorist, not of the elected mayor of Istanbul, Turkey’s largest city. The move — four days before my party, the Republican People’s Party, held a ...

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 ...

The inferno at the closed Kervansaray Hotel in Uludag, Bursa province in northwest Turkey turned deadly on Thursday in the second incident of its kind in just two months. The hotel was empty of ...

Shares in tech giant Apple (AAPL) were lower today as it faced a competition investigation over the prices of its tablets and phones in Turkey. Probe into Resale Prices The Turkish Competition ...

Academy Faculty Member, The Queen Elizabeth II Academy, Chatham House; Claire Tow Professor of Political Science, Barnard College, Columbia University The ‘liberal international order’ that has been ...

Thousands of people in Turkey have turned out for a seventh night of protests which have so far seen more than 1,400 people detained, including students, journalists and lawyers. The nightly ...