Turkey’s top opposition leader to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was sentenced to 20 months in prison for allegedly insulting ...

A senior leader of Turkey's beleaguered main opposition party accused the government of fabricating enemies in a politically ...

Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, who is being held in a prison west of Istanbul since March 23, is expected to appeal the verdict, which ...

Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu has had a second of his degrees revoked by Istanbul University, with the university on Monday night announcing that it had elected to cancel his master’s degree.His ...

A Turkish court jailed Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu on Sunday pending trial on graft charges, state media and other broadcasters said, in a move likely to stoke the country’s biggest protests ...

Ekrem Imamoglu, the mayor of Istanbul and a popular figure, had basked in the glow of what he often jokingly dubbed his political miracle - the only person to have beaten Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Ekrem Imamoglu, the mayor of Istanbul and a popular figure, had basked in the glow of what he often jokingly dubbed his political miracle… ...

Imamoglu was elected mayor of Turkey’s largest city in March 2019, a historic blow to Erdogan and the president’s Justice and Development Party, which had controlled Istanbul for a quarter ...

Imamoglu's election in 2019 ended 25 years of rule in Istanbul by the AKP and its Islamist predecessors, and represented a sharp defeat for Erdogan given he too once served as the city's mayor.

ISTANBUL — Istanbul’s imprisoned opposition Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu and his lawyers boycotted a court hearing Thursday, claiming a late change of venue was “unlawful.” Thursday's case, which ...

Imamoglu narrowly won Istanbul's earlier mayor's contest on March 31, but Erdogan's conservative, Islamic-based Justice and Development Party, AKP, challenged the election for alleged voting ...

Ekrem Imamoglu, the mayor of Istanbul and a popular figure, had boasted jokingly that he was the only person to have beaten Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruling party in three local elections.