Turkey’s top opposition leader and Istanbul mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu was sentenced to one year and eight months in prison for allegedly insulting and threatening a city prosecutor.

Ekrem Imamoglu, the mayor of Istanbul, is seen as the most credible opposition candidate to president Recep Tayyip Erdogan in ...

Turkey's central bank is expected to kick off a renewed easing cycle with a 250 basis-point rate cut to 43.50% next week, as ...

Turkish prosecutors have filed an indictment seeking at least five years in prison for journalist Fatih Altayli. He is accused of making comments about President Erdogan in a YouTube video. Altayli, ...

A Turkish court on Wednesday convicted Istanbul’s jailed opposition mayor and the chief rival to President Recep Tayyip ...

This ruling, delivered amidst a backdrop of increasing repression against dissent, raises grave concerns about the future of democracy in Turkey. İmamoğlu, who has been in custody since March due to ...

Turkey’s most popular opposition politician Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu was sentenced to nearly two years in prison on Wednesday, after a court found him guilty of “threatening” Istanbul’s chief ...

By Akin Nazli in Belgrade Ekrem Imamoglu, mayor of Istanbul and chief political rival to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was on July 16 sentenced to a 17-month prison term for insulting the ...

Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu has been sentenced to one year and eight months in prison, a decision that could impact his political future.

Mayor of Istanbul Ekrem Imamoglu speaks to the media at Kocatepe Mosque, in Ankara, Turkey, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2020 ...

Istanbul's mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, Turkey's leading opposition figure, got a 20-month prison sentence for insulting and threatening the city's public prosecutor Wednesday, according to a court document ...

An Istanbul court on Wednesday sentenced Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, the main rival of Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan, ...