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Turkey started hastily organized mass trials on Friday to prosecute some of the hundreds of people who took part in the ...
Dozens of people including journalists have appeared before a court in Istanbul, accused of attending banned demonstrations ...
The arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu brought rare unity among Turkey’s opposition — energy his party hopes will help it build an anti-Erdogan coalition.
Turkey’s biggest opposition party is running a symbolic national drive to collect 30mn signatures calling for the release of ...
Turkey’s central bank surprised markets on Thursday when it raised its key interest rate, the one-week repurchase rate, from ...
The bank decided to hike the rates after three straight cuts amid the economic turmoil triggered by the arrest of Istanbul ...
The Istanbul mayor’s lawyers appealed his arrest last week, saying that there was no flight risk for the main opposition ...
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 ...
The protests began after the government arrested Imamoglu, the man seen as posing the most serious electoral challenge to ...
A Turkish public prosecutor is seeking three-year jail terms for seven journalists arrested while covering protests against ...
The head of the Council of Europe, the continent's leading human rights watchdog, told Reuters it was worried about any ...