The lawyer for Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, who like the mayor is in jail under an expanding crackdown on Turkey's ...

Turkish prosecutors has charged Istanbul's mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu, with falsifying his university diploma, a new case ...

Mehmet Pehlivan, lawyer for Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, has been imprisoned under alleged fabricated charges as part of a ...

The detention of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu's lawyer, Mehmet Pehlivan, highlights Turkey's expanding crackdown on opposition figures. Pehlivan faces fabricated charges of criminal affiliation, ...

Authorities in Turkey have arrested three opposition mayors from southern cities. According to state media, the mayors, all ...

Three prominent mayors from Turkey’s main opposition party Republican People’s Party (CHP) were arrested on the morning of ...

Turkey has reportedly detained three more opposition mayors amid widening crackdown, sparking political tensions and protests ...

Police officers detain a demonstrator during a protest on the day Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu was jailed as part of a corruption investigation, in Ankara, Turkey, March 23, 2025.

Newly re-elected Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu has emerged as the main challenger to Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan's reign. But in some ways, he is following in the footsteps of the Turkish ...

Ekrem Imamoglu, the mayor of Istanbul and a popular figure, had boasted jokingly that he was the only person to have beaten Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruling party in three local elections.

Last week, a Turkish court sentenced Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu to prison for “insulting” public officials. Imamoglu is a popular opposition figure who could plausibly beat President Recep ...