Turkey’s top opposition leader to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was sentenced to 20 months in prison for allegedly insulting and threatening a city prosecutor. Ekrem Imamoglu, Istanbul’s mayor, has ...

Ekrem Imamoglu shockingly won the city’s mayoralty in part by wooing the lower and middle-income voters who had powered President Erdogan’s rise. By Carlotta Gall ...

A Turkish court on Wednesday convicted Istanbul’s jailed opposition mayor and the chief rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of insulting and threatening a public official and sentenced him to a ...

Fireworks thrown by protesters explode over riot police during a protest against the arrest of Istanbul's Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, in Istanbul, Turkey, Saturday, March 22, 2025© Francisco Seco ...

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 ...

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 ...

ISTANBUL (AP) — The head of Turkey’s main opposition party visited jailed Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu on Tuesday after six nights of massive protests calling for his release. Imamoglu ...

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 Tayyip Erdogan's ...

ISTANBUL — Istanbul’s imprisoned opposition Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu and his lawyers boycotted a court hearing Thursday, claiming a late change of venue was “unlawful.” Thursday's case, which ...

Ekrem Imamoglu, the mayor of Istanbul and a popular figure, had boasted jokingly that he was the only person to have beaten Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruling party in three local elections.

World Turkey’s opposition leader visits jailed Erdogan challenger Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu March 25, 2025 at 5:31 pm Updated March 25, 2025 at 7:48 pm By ANDREW WILKS ...