Erdogan has branded the protests “street terrorism”. Turkey’s extended ban now applies to the country's three largest cities – Istanbul, Izmir and the capital, Ankara – while the latest ...

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new video loaded: What to Know About the Turmoil in Turkey Turkey was plunged into a political crisis after the authorities arrested Ekrem Imamoglu, mayor of Istanbul and a top rival to President ...

Thousands of protesters have gathered for a seventh night in Istanbul, in support of the detained mayor of the city, Ekrem Imamoglu Thousands of people in Turkey have turned out for a seventh ...

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Britons have been warned against visiting Turkey this spring amid mass arrests and a government crackdown on the largest protests the country has seen in more than a decade over the jailing of ...

Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been running Turkey for 22 years, and has spent much of that time eroding its democracy. His government controls the courts, the security apparatus and almost all the media.

Erdoğan has been running Turkey since 2003, and he has maintained his hold on power, in part, by cracking down on political opponents and on the media. Some of those opponents come from Turkey ...

As Turkish cities braced for a sixth night of unrest on Monday, Turkey's interior minister said 1,133 people were detained between March 19 and March 23 in a post on X. Ali Yerlikaya added ...

Turkey has detained over 1,100 people — including 10 journalists reportedly arrested Monday morning — since mass protests were sparked on March 19 by the arrest of Istanbul's popular Mayor ...

Subscribe to the Daily News Brief to receive it every weekday morning. The latest from Turkey. The events underscored both the widespread public support for İmamoğlu and the hurdles to his ...