Turkish authorities have detained 343 people during overnight protests in several cities against the detention of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, the Interior Ministry said on Saturday.

The protests erupted after Imamoglu, widely seen as Erdogan’s strongest opponent, was detained on 19 March and jailed a few ...

The detention follows a wave of arrests and protests sparked by the March 19 arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu.

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Police detain a demonstrator during a protest against the imprisonment of leading Turkish opposition politician and Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu of the Republican People's Party (CHP). More than ...

Police have detained dozens of people in early morning raids across multiple ... Youth groups affiliated with the People’s Houses, one of Turkey’s longstanding left-wing movements, stated that several ...

Turkish police have detained 525 suspected drug dealers in dawn operations across the capital, Ankara, in what Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya described as the biggest anti-narcotics operation in the ...

ISTANBUL (AP) — Dozens of people including journalists appeared before a court in Istanbul on Friday, accused of attending ...

Turkish state-run media says dozens of customs officers have been detained in a bribery investigation focused on Europe’s busiest border crossing ...

Writers Timur Soykan of BirGun and Cumhuriyet’s Murat Agirel were arrested at their homes on charges of making threats and blackmail in an investigation by the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s ...

Turkish authorities arrested 234 people in an operation coordinated with four European countries against criminal ...

Turkish authorities have detained 343 people during overnight ... Demonstrations took place in more than a dozen cities including Turkey’s biggest city Istanbul and the capital Ankara, the ...