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Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu was detained in the early hours of Wednesday during a raid on his home as part of investigations into alleged corruption and links to a terrorist group.
Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu has transformed into a political star, and may be a worthy challenger to the Turkish president in coming elections. In a DER SPIEGEL interview, he talks about what ...
Istanbul University on Monday revoked former mayor Ekrem Imamoğlu’s master’s degree, stripping him of another academic ...
The recent arrest of Istanbul's Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu and main rival of President Erdoğan has sparked the largest protests in Turkey in a decade, with over 1,100 people detained in ...
The arrest of Ekrem İmamoğlu, the mayor of Istanbul, Turkey’s largest city with a population of 16 million, by police raiding his home on Wednesday morning, marks a new stage in President ...
A Turkish court on Wednesday sentenced Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, a popular rival of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, to more than two years in prison and imposed a political ban for ...
Ekrem İmamoğlu, the mayor of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality and possible presidential candidate for the Republican People’s Party (CHP), was detained on two separate charges in a police ...
Turkey took a sharp turn toward full autocracy on Sunday when President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s main political rival, Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, was jailed amid a major crackdown on the opposition.
But you won’t erase me from the people’s hearts. I call on you: abandon this lawlessness and enemy justice. I repeat – Ekrem İmamoğlu is not being tried, he is being punished.” After İmamoğlu spoke, ...