Turkey’s populist authoritarian leader, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is now fighting for his political survival. His predicament is entirely of his own making: in the early hours of March 19, Erdogan ...

In Turkey the largest protests in a decade and, crucially, the lack of support by important political allies suggest that Mr. Erdogan’s determination to remain in power might have finally pushed ...

With Turkey in the middle, both figuratively and literally, as Erdogan pointed in an interview with Newsweek last July, the Turkish leader has both invested in its NATO role and sought closer ...

Turkey has been plunged into a political crisis after the authorities arrested Ekrem Imamoglu, the mayor of Istanbul and the top rival of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and jailed him pending his ...

On March 24, Ozel called for a boycott of any media outlet that refuses to cover the protests. It will once again accuse Erdogan of using the power of the state against Turkey’s democracy.

Erdogan has been president of Turkey since 2014 and ever since then he has continued to expand his powers. In 2018, he was given far-reaching powers when the current presidential system was ...

Turkey is bracing for more civil unrest, after at least 340 people were arrested overnight Friday. Violent clashes between protesters and police were sparked by Wednesday's arrest of Istanbul ...

Erdogan has dismissed opposition anger as “theatrics” and “slogans” for which Turkey has no time. The president warned late Saturday that “no one in Turkey is outside the scope of the ...

Ekrem Imamoglu, Erdogan’s most serious political rival, was arrested at his home on Wednesday just days before he was to be registered as a candidate in the 2028 presidential election.

Turkey Turkish authorities arrest key rival of Erdogan; critics say it's 'no coincidence' 'Attempting to associate judicial investigations and cases with our President is, to say the least, an act ...

Erdogan previously amended the constitution in a 2017 referendum that transformed Turkey’s parliamentary system into a ...