The recent arrest of Istanbul’s Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu has escalated political conflicts within Turkey and critically ...

The ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) on Thursday lambasted the main opposition party for what it called the ...

Events in Turkey show how leaders can weaken secularism, concentrate power and criminalise the opposition within a political ...

As hundreds of thousands of people gathered in Istanbul on Saturday to demand İmamoglu’s release, President Erdoğan, the ...

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan lashed out at the opposition CHP in the toughest criticism over the latter’s incitement of ...

Many view the detention of Ekrem Imamoglu as a political move designed to remove him from the 2028 presidential race - ...

Since coming to power in 2003 as Prime Minister, and later assuming the presidency under a revised Constitution, Mr. Erdoğan and his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) have shown little ...

Turkey’s president has accused the political opposition of “sinking the economy” during the country’s largest protests in ...

Omer Celik, the spokesman of Erdogan’s ruling Justice and Development Party, disputed allegations by the opposition that the detentions were government-orchestrated and urged respect for the ...

Drone. (Photo: iStock) Turkiye has been approaching a critical juncture for over two decades under the governance of the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi – AKP). A recent ...

Its most public face has been its leader, Ozgur Ozel, a pharmacist and lawmaker known for his altercations with members of Mr. Erdogan’s governing Justice and Development Party in Parliament.