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A senior leader of Turkey's beleaguered main opposition party accused the government of fabricating enemies in a politically ...
Turkey’s top opposition leader to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was sentenced to 20 months in prison for allegedly insulting ...
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Turkey’s Regional Power Push
Europe’s security needs and the Middle East’s power vacuum means more space for Ankara. President Erdogan is seizing the opportunity. Against a backdrop of domestic repression, Turkey’s President ...
Joakim Medin was jailed last month for "insulting" Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The journalist was in Turkey, covering protests triggered by the arrest of the Istanbul mayor Ekrem ...
Turkish prosecutors has charged Istanbul's mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu, with falsifying his university diploma, a new case threatening more years in prison for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's main rival, ...
Jailed Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu is fighting a series of legal battles on charges of corruption, insulting officials and terrorism links amid a widening crackdown on the opposition in Turkey ...
A last-minute presidential decree citing national security concerns was on July 31 used to prevent the start of a mineworkers ...
Turkey has in the past seen waves of mass arrests of pro-Kurdish leaders, civil society members, military officers and outlawed groups, especially during Erdogan's increasingly authoritarian tenure.
Turkey was gripped by widespread street protests after the March 19 arrest of Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu -- widely seen as the only politician capable of defeating Erdogan at the ballot box.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is tearing his country's democracy apart, and getting bolder by the day.
T he fallout from the June protests in Turkey is settling into a growing pattern of reprisal against those dissenting against Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, critics of his government say.