His mother and four younger siblings have stayed in Istanbul where they live in Esenyurt, a district with a large Syrian community. "They will follow me in two or three months, but I'm not coming ...

The same expert was involved in various investigations targeting opposition-run municipalities in İstanbul, İmamoğlu has ...

In October, Esenyurt municipality—a district in Istanbul, held by the CHP—was seized. In November, the DEM-held municipalities of the city of Mardin, located on the border with Syria ...

Speaking at the inauguration of the Esenyurt Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Educational Complex in Istanbul, President Recep Tayyip ...

The prosecutor’s office disclosed that a three-month investigation led to arrest warrants for 47 individuals, including Akpolat and Ahmet Özer, the CHP mayor of Istanbul’s Esenyurt district.

In October, Ahmet Ozer, who was elected mayor of Esenyurt for the CHP in the 2024 local elections was also arrested and Istanbul’s deputy governor, Can Aksoy, appointed as a trustee in his place.

The mayor of one of Turkey’s opposition strongholds was arrested Monday as part of a bid-rigging investigation, prosecutors in Istanbul said. Riza Akpolat, who heads Besiktas municipality on the ...