"This time protests are purely political, it's purely about the future of democracy in Turkey," he explained. "The AK party is not as strong as that time (during Gezi protests). This is happeneing ...

President Erdogan is calculating he can ride out the upheaval caused by the arrest of his top rival, Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu.

Thousands rally against the arrest of opposition politician Ekrem Imamoglu, but his party says their planned protests are coming to an end.

Hundreds of thousands of people defied a ban on gathering in Istanbul to take to the streets for a fifth night on Sunday – where protesters were met with tear gas and rubber bullets from police.

Protests that erupted across Turkey following the arrest of Istanbul’s opposition mayor have taken a new direction as ...

Although the immediate cause of the students’ reaction is the exile of their teachers, there is mounting anger over the poor ...

The arrest of an opposition presidential candidate last month has triggered the largest anti-government protests Turkey has ...

Ekrem Imamoglu - always smartly turned out, even as he prepared to be detained - is the main rival to Turkey's increasingly ...

Erdogan started his political career as a mayor of Istanbul ... in mock ballot boxes that were placed across Turkey as a symbolic protest against the government and a show of public support ...

Police in Istanbul have used tear gas and rubber bullets against demonstrators in a second night of disorder after the arrest ...

The head of the Council of Europe, the continent's leading human rights watchdog, told Reuters it was worried about any ...

The biggest protests in more than a decade ... of using the courts to sideline a perceived political threat to Mr. Erdogan, who has led Turkey since 2003, and have called for Mr. Imamoglu ...