Hundreds of people protested outside an Istanbul courthouse Saturday, calling for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to resign, as Turkey entered its fourth day of civil unrest. Violent clashes ...

Jailing of Istanbul mayor prompts biggest protests in a decade Opposition targets TV broadcasters, advertisers, media owners Accuses pro-government media of ignoring the protests Turkey ranks ...

Turkey’s central bank raised one of its key interest rates in a surprise meeting on Thursday, the latest move by authorities to reverse a decline in the lira. The monetary authority hiked the ...

Imamoglu, one of Turkey’s most popular political figures, was the major threat to Erdogan. Erdogan extended his rule into a third decade after winning a knife-edge presidential election in 2023 ...

NATO member Turkey has good ties with Kyiv and Moscow Ankara could contribute to Ukraine peace keeping mission Turkey and Europe have common security interests Turkey says European security not ...

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Media outlets and journalists critical of the government have long faced censorship in Turkey, according to Reporters Without Borders, which says tactics “such as stripping them of press passes ...

A group of bipartisan House lawmakers are introducing legislation to redesignate Turkey as a Near Eastern country at the State Department, rather than a European country, as Ankara has moved away ...

The recent arrest of Istanbul's Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu and main rival of President Erdoğan has sparked the largest protests in Turkey in a decade, with over 1,100 people detained in ...

Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been running Turkey for 22 years, and has spent much of that time eroding its democracy. His government controls the courts, the security apparatus and almost all the media.

Protests have been taking place across Turkey over the past week, including in the largest city Istanbul and the capital Ankara, amid anger over the jailing of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu ...