As hundreds of thousands of people gathered in Istanbul on Saturday to demand İmamoglu’s release, President Erdoğan, the commander-in-chief of NATO’s second largest army, accused the CHP of serving imperialism.

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

Turkish police detained 11 people on Thursday for supporting a shopping boycott as part of protests against the imprisonment of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's main rival, state-run media reported.

As Erdoğan responds to the mass protests with a growing state crackdown, the CHP is seeking to end the movement and is appealing to its NATO allies.

Vast crowds of students surged onto Istanbul's streets Monday in the latest protest over the arrest and jailing of Istanbul's opposition mayor that has sparked Turkey's worst unrest in years.

Unlike X, which has suspended social media accounts at the request of the Turkish government, Meta says it has faced heavy fines in Turkey for refusing to do so.

Turkey said on Thursday it rejected "prejudiced" international statements over the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu and the nationwide protests triggered by it, as authorities detained nearly 1,

including seven Turkish journalists who were reporting on the protests. Getty Images Ekrem Imamoglu, pictured in February, was confirmed as the CHP's candidate for Turkey's 2028 presidential ...

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

Protests across Turkey over the detention of Istanbul's mayor have swelled into the thousands for a third consecutive day, despite restrictions and bans on public demonstrations by some local authorities.