Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s strongest rival, Ekrem Imamoglu, is facing the risk of life in prison, after a prosecutor requested a sentence of more than 2,000 years for the Istanbul mayor.

Hundreds of thousands of Turks protested in Istanbul on Saturday against the jailing of Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, President Tayyip Erdogan's main rival, sustaining the largest demonstrations Turkey has ...

Ekrem Imamoglu’s arrest has caused mass protests across Turkey - Murad Sezer/REUTERS Soon after Recep Tayyip Erdogan was elected mayor of Istanbul in the mid-1990s, he visited a meatball restaurant in ...

ANKARA, Turkey -- Istanbul’s chief public prosecutor filed a sweeping indictment against the city's jailed mayor, Ekrem ...

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 ...

WHEN MY HUSBAND, Ekrem Imamoglu, was arrested in the early hours of March 19th, millions across Turkey felt exactly as I did: not only sorrow but a strong sense of injustice and rising anger. Under ...

A Turkish court jailed Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu on Sunday pending trial on graft charges, state media and other broadcasters said, in a move likely to stoke the country’s biggest protests against ...

Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu was detained following a raid on his residence earlier this week, sparking the largest wave of street demonstrations in Turkey in more than a decade. It also deepened concerns ...

People listen to speeches during a rally in support of Istanbul's imprisoned opposition Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu as he appears for a hearing at the Caglayan courthouse, in Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday, Oct.

ALBAWABA - Turkish Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, a well-known opposition leader of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, is slapped with new charges by prosecutors, Anadolu Agency reported. Ekrem Imamoglu, who was ...

Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu has been detained by Turkish authorities days before he was expected to be nominated as the opposition candidate running in the 2028 presidential election, a move the ...