Turkey

Turkey’s main opposition leader on Sunday pledged further protests against the jailing of Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, President Tayyip Erdogan’s chief rival, aiming to sustain Turkey’s biggest demonstrations ...

Turkey wants no confrontation with Israel in Syria, but repeated Israeli strikes on military facilities there are eroding the new government’s ability to deter threats from enemies, including Islamic ...

Turkish annual consumer price inflation dropped to 38.1 per cent in February, official data showed this week, lower than a Reuters poll forecast. Month-on-month, inflation was 2.46 per cent, according to the ...

Turkish inflation is expected to end the year a bit higher than previously expected, a Reuters poll showed on Wednesday, reflecting fallout from a currency selloff after authorities detained and ...

Turkey’s manufacturing sector contracted further in March, with output and new orders continuing to ease amid difficult market conditions both domestically and internationally, a survey showed on Wednesday. The ...

Both Turkey and the north offered condemnation for the events held in the Republic of Cyprus to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of Eoka – the paramilitary organisation set ...

Turkey’s government denounced opposition calls for a mass commercial boycott following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu that sparked nationwide protests, describing them on Wednesday as an economic “...

Turkish authorities have detained a lawyer for jailed Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, President Tayyip Erdogan’s biggest political rival, an MP of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) ...

Turkey said on Thursday it rejected “prejudiced” international statements over the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu and protests it triggered, following the detention of nearly 1,900 people since the nationwide ...

Turkey and the United States want to remove obstacles to defence industry cooperation, a Turkish Foreign Ministry source said, after talks between the NATO allies’ top diplomats in Washington. On ...

Turkish inflation is expected to end the year a bit higher than previously expected, a Reuters poll showed on Wednesday, reflecting fallout from a currency selloff after authorities detained and ...

Istanbul’s opposition-run municipal council on Wednesday elected an interim mayor to run the city, broadcaster NTV said, after mayor Ekrem Imamoglu was jailed pending trial over graft charges that ...

President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that his government would not get worked up over what he described as “provocations” by the main opposition, after the arrest of Istanbul Mayor ...

Many Turkish anti-government protesters said they were bracing for a long-term standoff after six nights of action and scattered clashes with police over the jailing of Istanbul’s mayor, rejecting ...

An early rally in Turkish stocks following last week’s slump fizzled out on Monday with tensions in the country running high after a court jailed Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu ...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that protests over the jailing of Istanbul’s mayor had become a “movement of violence” and that the main opposition party would be ...

A Turkish court on Sunday jailed Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, President Tayyip Erdogan’s main political rival, pending trial on corruption charges in a move that inflamed the country’s ...

Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, a potential challenger to longtime President Tayyip Erdogan, appeared in a Turkish court on Saturday for the first time since his detention on Wednesday for alleged ...

Turkish authorities have detained 343 people during overnight protests in several cities against the detention of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, the Interior Ministry said on Saturday. Demonstrations took place in more ...

By Ahmet T. Kuru, San Diego State University Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu had expected to become Turkey’s opposition presidential nominee on March 23, 2025; instead, he lost his freedom and college ...

President Tayyip Erdogan warned on Friday that Turkey would not tolerate street violence or public disruptions after the detention of Istanbul’s mayor Ekrem Imamoglu prompted some of the biggest ...

Thousands of Turks ramped up protests despite a ban on street gatherings over what they called the undemocratic detention of Istanbul’s mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, as the opposition sought to ...

Thousands of Turks ramped up protests on Thursday despite a ban on street gatherings over what they called the undemocratic detention of Istanbul’s mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, as the opposition ...

Turkey’s lira fell as much as 12.7 per cent to an all-time low of 42 to the dollar on Wednesday, with bonds and stocks also tumbling, after authorities detained President Tayyip ...