By forcing the Istanbul mayor out of politics, the government has crossed the line that separates Turkey’s competitive ...

Umit Bektas/Reuters Supported by By Ben Hubbard Reporting from Istanbul Turkey has been plunged into a political crisis after ... as they exacerbate street events,” Mr. Yerlikaya said in a ...

By Akin Nazli in Belgrade The trajectory of Turkey's international reserves and macroeconomic policy settings will be key in ...

Turkey’s central bank raised its key interest rate, reversing a previous course of reductions as political conflict threatens to stymie the bank’s efforts to tame high inflation.

Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has consistently excelled at positioning himself on the international stage, ...

Turkey’s central bank has raised its key interest rate by 3.5 percentage points and halted a three‑month easing streak as it ...

The president condemns the "evil" demonstrations, which began last week when his political opponent Ekrem Imamoglu was ...

Press freedom groups have criticized Turkey ... Erdogan's key rival as he beat candidates from Erdogan's party in three previous local elections to hold the mayor's office. Erdogan started his ...

Despite insistence from the government in Ankara that Imamoglu's arrest has nothing to do with his politics, the apparent crackdown on dissent has deepened concern both in Turkey and abroad about ...

Related Erdogan's government arrests Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu in Turkish political crackdown Turkey's opposition party scores key local election ... It's a six-month long event and they ...

Everything will come out in the open anyway.” The move to detain the mayor of Turkey’s largest and most populous city, a key political battleground, comes after Istanbul University said on ...

He is Erdoğan’s political nemesis, and his likely candidacy to run against him for the presidency has been weighing on Erdoğan’s mind," Sinan Ciddi, nonresident senior fellow on Turkey at ...