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Berlin mayor cancels Turkey visit due to İmamoğlu’s arrest

Berlin Mayor Kai Wegner has canceled a trip to İstanbul planned for early April due to the Sunday arrest of the city’s popular mayor,...

Turkish university student detained by US immigration agents

US authorities have detained a Turkish university student, the latest action taken against a foreign student associated with pro-Palestinian campus activism as President Donald...

Turkish court frees 7 journalists arrested for covering protests

Turkish courts on Thursday ordered the release of seven journalists, including an Agence France-Presse photographer, held for covering the worst protests to grip the...

UN voices ‘concern’ over Turkish court’s U-turn on journalists’ arrest

The United Nations voiced concern on Wednesday over a Turkish court's U-turn decision to remand in custody seven journalists, including Agence France-Presse photographer Yasin...

Former beauty queen detained for allegedly insulting the Turkish president

Turkish police detained former beauty queen Banu Öztürk on Tuesday on allegations of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on social media, the Stockholm Center...

Social media platform X challenges 126 account-blocking orders at Turkey’s top court

Social media platform X said Wednesday it had filed a legal challenge with Turkey’s Constitutional Court against a government order to block 126 user...

Erdoğan takes Turkey to new crossroads with mayor’s arrest: analysts

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has taken Turkey closer to autocracy with the arrest of the elected mayor of İstanbul, but the scale of the...

Turkey’s main opposition leader regrets silence of UK’s Starmer over arrest of İstanbul mayor

Özgür Özel, the leader of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), has expressed regret over the silence of UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer...

Turkish court again blocks access to pro-Kurdish news agency website

A Turkish court has imposed another access ban on a website used by a media outlet critical of government policy on the Kurdish issue,...

172 jailed in İstanbul over protests against mayor’s arrest

Turkish authorities have jailed 172 people in İstanbul pending trial over demonstrations sparked by the arrest and suspension from office of Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu,...

Turkey detains nearly 1,500 in a week of protests over İstanbul mayor’s detention

Turkish authorities have detained nearly 1,500 people as nationwide protests sparked by the detention and subsequent arrest of the mayor of İstanbul entered their...

Investigation launched into Turkish education union following academic boycott call

The İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has launched an investigation into the Education and Science Workers’ Union (Eğitim Sen) for allegedly “publicly inciting the...

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