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 ...

Error occured during this request! Please try again later. ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - An offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) on Tuesday said the group ...

The head of Turkey's main opposition party has visited jailed Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu after six nights of mass protests calling for his release. İmamoğlu, who was arrested on 19 ...

Mr. Imamoglu was elected mayor of Istanbul in 2019. He wrote from Silivri Prison, outside the city. Early in the morning on March 19, dozens of armed police officers showed up at my door with a ...

The jailing of Istanbul’s mayor pending his trial on corruption charges has stoked worries that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is becoming more authoritarian in seeking to sideline a top rival.

Who’s that protester? It’s Pikachu! A demonstrator in a Pikachu costume joined thousands of protesters who took to the streets to express outrage over the arrest of Istanbul’s mayor — who ...

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.

ISTANBUL — The head of Turkey's main opposition party visited jailed Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu on Tuesday after six nights of massive protests calling for his release. Imamoglu, arrested on ...

Mayor Imamoglu was jailed pending trial over graft charges Lawyer's attorney says he was detained for defending mayor Opposition, Western powers criticise case against Imamoglu as politically ...

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 ...