With the disintegration of the Syrian state after 2011, the Kurds in northeast Syria became key players in shaping the ...

Widely seen as the strongest challenger to Erdogan -- whose route to the presidency also included four years as Istanbul ...

The detention of Ekrem Imamoglu was a dramatic escalation in a crackdown on the opposition and dissenting voices in Turkey.

On March 18, the politician – seen as a powerful rival to long-ruling Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan – saw his bachelor’s degree revoked by Istanbul University. A day later, İmamoğlu was ...

Ekrem Imamoglu, the mayor of Istanbul and a popular figure, had basked in the glow of what he often jokingly dubbed his ...

Ekrem Imamoglu - a popular opposition leader and key rival of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan - was among some 100 people ...

As the detention of Istanbul's mayor and the arrest of more than 100 raise alarms over an escalating crackdown on opposition, ...

Turkish police have arrested Istanbul’s mayor — a key rival of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan — as part of an investigation ...

Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu was arrested at his home on corruption and terrorism charges. He was growing in popularity and ...

In 2022, Erdogan explicitly rejected the peace process between Jewish and Arab states under the Abraham Accords framework, a ...

Ekrem Imamoglu, the mayor of Istanbul and a popular figure, had boasted jokingly that he was the only person to have beaten ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Kurdistan Region’s oil exports through Turkey could be resumed next week after nearly two years ...