University students with no history of activism are now at the forefront of demonstrations against Erdogan’s increasingly ...

Modern Islamism and the Ottoman past have also ... The opposition has seized on this human rights record. The Republican People’s Party, the oldest political party in Turkey, founded by Kemal Atatürk ...

Secularism was seen as essential to modern development ... House’s 2024 report, Turkey is classified as “not free”, with ...

More than 120 people detained during anti-government protests in Turkey have been released from prison after more than two weeks behind bars ...

As Turkish cities braced for a sixth night of unrest on Monday, Turkey's interior minister said 1,133 people were detained between March 19 and March 23 in a post on X. Ali Yerlikaya added ...

Tens of thousands of people across Turkey have been protesting against the arrest of Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu - the main political rival of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Protesters have ...

Mayor of Istanbul Ekrem Imamoglu is facing detainment just days ahead of launching his campaign to become the president of Turkey. Imamoglu, the presumptive Republican People’s Party candidate ...

Imamoglu - a member of the secular Republican People's Party (CHP) and a key rival of Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan - was set to be named as a presidential candidate for the 2028 ...

Turkey has released more than 120 people who were detained during last month’s mass anti-government protests. Courts in Istanbul released 127 defendants on bail, most of them university students ...