Supporters gather outside Silivri prison as Istanbul's mayor faces politically motivated charges, sparking nationwide ...

Istanbul’s jailed mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu, is due to appear in court in multiple cases separate to his arrest last month, ...

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

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Ekrem Imamoglu, the mayor of Istanbul and a popular figure, had basked in the glow of what he often jokingly dubbed his political miracle — the only person to have beaten Recep ...

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

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

The jailing of Istanbul’s mayor pending his trial on corruption charges has stoked worries that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is becoming ... the arrest of Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu.Credit ...

Ekrem Imamoglu, Erdogan’s most serious political rival, was arrested at his home on Wednesday just days before he was to be registered as a candidate in the 2028 presidential election.

The mass arrests continued Sunday, despite the official ban, as Ekrem Imamoglu was ... a bid to take the presidency from Erdogan. A day before his detention, Imamoglu's university diploma was ...

The Istanbul Mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu, was detained as part ... He had been elected Istanbul mayor in 2019. “Erdogan sees in Imamoglu a key challenger,” Soner Captagay, a senior fellow and ...

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