Is This Turkey’s Breaking Point? | Vantage with Palki Sharma Three mayors. One party. And a leader who won’t let go of power.

Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu was detained in the early hours of Wednesday during a raid on his home as part of investigations into alleged corruption and links to a terrorist group. By Sunday ...

Enemy law practices continue against those detained in İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality operations. Following transfers to ...

Ekrem İmamoğlu, now-suspended mayor of İstanbul and the presidential candidate of the main opposition Republican People’s ...

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 ...

Turkish authorities arrested three more mayors from the main opposition party, the Republican People's Party (CHP), deepening ...

Turkish prosecutors has charged Istanbul's mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu, with falsifying his university diploma, a new case ...

An Istanbul court’s decision on June 19, 2025, to allow the detention of a leading defense lawyer for the jailed Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu appears to be in reprisal for his legal ...

The formal order by an Istanbul court to detain Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu is the latest example of the justice system weaponized to remove a leading opposition politician from the political ...

Ekrem İmamoğlu, Mayor of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality [Photo: VOA] İmamoğlu was the sole candidate in CHP’s presidential primary scheduled for March 23 and had recently polled ahead of ...

The mayor of Istanbul Ekrem İmamoğlu was detained by Turkish authorities on March 19, not March 21 as wrongly stated in an article on April 17 ...