Turkey has experienced zero pressure from the US since the detention of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s main political rival Ekrem Imamoglu on March 19 and the taking to the streets of tens of thousands of Turks concerned that what democracy there is left in their country is being snuffed out.

Mr. Imamoglu has denied the charges, calling them politically motivated. Many people have accused the government of using the courts to sideline a perceived political threat to Mr. Erdogan ...

China's military said it had conducted a patrol in the South China Sea on Friday, the day U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reaffirmed Washington's commitment to Manila, which disputes some of Beijing's claims in the waterway.

Turkey’s Erdogan administration was on March 24 confronted by the rising risk that it will turn top opposition politician Ekrem Imamoglu into a martyr as it continued with his imprisonment on corruption charges in the face of a sixth day of massive street protests.

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.

Istanbul's now-deposed mayor Ekrem Imamoglu has become the latest Turkish politician or activist opposed to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to fall foul of the judicial authorities in what campaigners see as an intensifying pattern of repression.

Since the arrest of Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, his wife Dilek has been center stage at nightly protests, fighting for her husband and the survival of the Turkish opposition.

Critics say the arrest of Istanbul's mayor is part of a mounting crackdown by Turkey's president to silence all dissent.

Against that backdrop, the arrest of the candidate most likely to defeat Erdogan is unsurprising. When Imamoglu was first elected Istanbul’s mayor in 2019, Erdogan claimed the election had been ...

The demonstrations began last week following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, a key rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Imamoglu was jailed pending trial on corruption charges ...

As hundreds of people gathered for a rally in support of Turkish opposition leader Ekrem Imamoglu in central Berlin, Turkish builder Ali was queueing up to buy pastries across town. Several hundred of them attended a protest in central Berlin on Sunday in support of Imamoglu,