The main opposition party in Turkey, the Republican People’s Party (CHP), has called for a mass rally in Istanbul on Saturday. While student groups have maintained the momentum with smaller

Protesters gathered for a mass rally in Istanbul on Saturday at the call of Turkey's main opposition CHP over the jailing of city mayor and top party figure Ekrem Imamoglu

ISTANBUL (AP) — Police used pepper spray, plastic pellets and water cannon against protesters in Turkey’s capital early Thursday, the latest clash in the country’s biggest anti-government protests in over a decade.

Turkey on Thursday stepped up a crackdown on media coverage of mass protests since the arrest of Istanbul's popular mayor, deporting a BBC journalist and imposing a 10-day broadcast ban on an opposition TV channel.

A massive Istanbul demonstration over the arrest and jailing of opposition presidential candidate Ekrem Imamoglu and the fate of democracy in Turkey is planned for Saturday (May 29). There will be concern that the event could prove a fateful test of the willpower of the opposition and the movement to free Imamoglu and the ruling regime.

Turkey's president on Wednesday accused the political opposition of sinking the economy" during the country's largest protests in more than a decade over the arrest of Istanbul's mayor, the biggest challenger to Recep Tayyip Erdogan's 22-year rule.