STORY: :: July 1, 2025:: Hundreds clash with police at a rally for jailed Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu:: Istanbul, Turkey:: It followed a protest marking 100 days since Imamoglu was detained ...

A Turkish court has convicted Istanbul’s jailed opposition mayor of insulting and threatening a public official.

Turkey’s top opposition leader to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was sentenced to 20 months in prison for allegedly insulting ...

Officials from CHP-controlled municipalities in Istanbul and elsewhere have faced waves of arrests this year over allegations of corruption. The opposition claims the arrests are politically motivated ...

An Istanbul court on Wednesday sentenced Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, the main rival of Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan, ...

Ekrem İmamoğlu is already in pre-trial detention on separate charges against him, but has now been given an extra prison ...

Annual inflation dropped in June by more than expected, to 35 per cent. Although that means Turkey still has one of the highest inflation rates in the world, it has fallen from a peak of 75 per cent ...

Turkish police on Tuesday arrested more than 120 people at city hall in the opposition stronghold of Izmir, hours before a key rally in Istanbul, in the latest move targeting President Recep Tayyip ...

Istanbul's benchmark BIST 100 index was up 5.4% at 1117 GMT, having risen as much as 2.7% following the court decision. The banking index was up 9.43% at the same time, after an earlier jump of 3.7%.

Police use pepper spray to disperse protesters during a rally called by main opposition Republican People's Party or (CHP), in Istanbul, Turkey, Tuesday, July 1, 2025. Francisco Seco/AP ...