Ekrem Imamoglu's hearing centers on insulting and threatening the chief Istanbul prosecutor. His imprisonment over unrelated charges of corruption and aiding a terrorist group sparked mass protests ...

The arrest of an opposition presidential candidate last month has triggered the largest anti-government protests Turkey has ...

Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, who's Turkey's biggest rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has appeared in court for the ...

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

Protests that erupted across Turkey following the arrest of the main challenger to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan have taken ...

Turkey said on Thursday it rejected "prejudiced" foreign statements over the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu and ...

Turkish authorities detained and deported BBC correspondent Mark Lowen​ and arrested other journalists amid the largest nationwide protests in a decade.

Hundreds of thousands of people came out in Istanbul on March 29th to demand the release of Turkey’s best-known recent ...

The biggest protests in more than a decade ... of using the courts to sideline a perceived political threat to Mr. Erdogan, who has led Turkey since 2003, and have called for Mr. Imamoglu ...

A court on Sunday formally arrested Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu and ordered him jailed pending a trial on corruption charges. His ...

By Amelia Nierenberg Reporting from London The BBC said on Thursday that Turkey had deported a ... in Istanbul where he was covering the protests and political crisis ignited by the arrest last ...

The recent arrest of Istanbul’s Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu has escalated political conflicts within Turkey and critically ...