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Demonstrators, including one in a Pikachu costume, were seen clashing with the police, as international concerns over Turkey's democratic decline grow. A person wearing a Pikachu costume joined ...

Hundreds of thousands of Turks protested in Istanbul on Saturday against the jailing of Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, President Tayyip Erdogan's main rival, sustaining the largest demonstrations Turkey ...

Swedish journalist Joakim Medin has been arrested in Turkey on charges of "membership of an armed terrorist organisation" and "insulting the president." Andreas Gustavsson, editor-in-chief of ...

Free Expression: For all its bold talk, Europe could easily remain economically hidebound, politically divided and militarily weak even as tensions with the U.S. rise dramatically. Photo: Emil ...

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A protester in a giant, inflatable Pikachu costume is going viral—and sparking a flurry of AI-generated images—after being spotted fleeing police in Antalya, Turkey. The costumed figure was ...

Amid the smoke, water cannons, and chaos of Turkey's mass protests, a flash of yellow darted through the streets of Antalya. It wasn't a protest banner or a flare - it was Pikachu. A protester ...

That was Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s current president. But Erdogan is now facing a political crisis that could be the most serious in his increasingly authoritarian reign of more than two ...

The US expressed concerns about protests in Turkey, said Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Turkey arrested Ekrem Imamoglu, the mayor of Istanbul. President Tayyip Erdogan dismissed the protests. US ...

The arrest and recent imprisonment of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu sent shockwaves through Turkey, marking a decisive shift toward full autocracy. On March 19, police officers — acting on ...