Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, who's Turkey's biggest rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has appeared in court for the first time since he was arrested last month and placed in a high-security ...

The head of Turkey's main opposition party has told the BBC that protests will continue "in every city" until either early ...

Mark Lowen was covering the protests in Istanbul when he was arrested and later deported back to the UK, the BBC has said.

Akgul was one of seven journalists arrested in dawn raids. All had been covering the protests sparked by the arrest of the ...

At 9.30pm, I was moved to the foreigners' custody unit of the Istanbul police. There, the atmosphere hardened from a ...

UK singer Robbie Williams has also faced calls to cancel his show after the Turkish promoter went on social media to condemn ...

Presenter Mark Lowen was in Turkey earlier this week and meets two university students, who say they are protesting to protect democracy. He also brings together three Turkish journalists who share ...

Guests: Mark Lowen, BBC Correspondent and former BBC Istanbul Correspondent Dr Ziya Meral, Lecturer in International Studies and Diplomacy, SOAS Firdevs Robinson, Turkish journalist and broadcaster ...

More than 120 people detained during anti-government protests in Turkey have been released from prison after more than two weeks behind bars ...

Hundreds of thousands of Turks protested in Istanbul on Saturday against the jailing of Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, President ...

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