Turkey’s president has accused the political opposition of “sinking the economy” during the country’s largest protests in more than a decade.

The mayor of Istanbul is President Erdogan's most serious rival and was about to be selected as an opposition candidate in ...

The opposition leader’s arrest has ignited Turkey’s largest protests in over a decade ...

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

President Erdogan has spearheaded numerous major infrastructure projects as part of a programme to modernise Turkey [Getty Images] ...

Where I am does not matter,” he said. The mayor’s jailing is widely regarded as a political move to remove a major challenger to Erdogan from the next presidential race, scheduled for 2028.

The head of Turkey’s main opposition party visited jailed Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu on Tuesday after six nights of massive protests calling for his release. Imamoglu, ...

Opponents say President Recep Tayyip Erdogan manipulates the courts and the media to tighten his grip on power, and now is trying to prevent a top contender from running for president. By Ben ...

He beat candidates from Erdogan's party in three previous local elections to hold the mayor's office. Erdogan started his political career as a mayor of Istanbul, a city of 16 million people that ...

In his more than two decades leading Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been accused of displaying illiberal tendencies, centralizing power and backsliding on democracy. Last week ...

As mayor of the economic and cultural capital of Turkey with a population of 16 million, Imamoglu is probably Turkey’s second-highest profile politician after Erdogan. However, analysts say a ...