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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 ...

Turkey's main opposition party rallied on the outskirts of Istanbul on Saturday, calling for the release of the city's imprisoned mayor Ekrem Imamoglu. The Republican People's Party (CHP) and its ...

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Ocalan’s unprecedented statement on February 27 urging the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to disarm and disband raised hopes among Turkey’s Kurdish citizens that Turkish President Recep ...

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 ...

The official White House X account on Thursday posted its most bizarre meme to date: a Studio Ghibli-style AI cartoon of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer handcuffing a crying ...

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 ...