Türkiye is facing a severe financial crisis, with the economy crumbling, reserves depleting, and inflation surging. Over 50 ...

After purging the judiciary, cracking down on the media, and jailing political opponents, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ...

Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s biggest rival, was jailed over the weekend on corruption ...

A seven-second segment of a five-minute video showed by Erdoğan showed scenes from clashes between protesters and police in ...

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.

State crackdowns on political opposition are hardly new in President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Türkiye. Since coming to power in 2003 as Prime Minister, and later assuming the presidency under a ...

Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has spent years eroding democracy, stifling dissent and purging the country’s army and civil service. Now, it ...

Turkey sought to calm international investors on Tuesday amid days of protests sparked by the arrest of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s chief rival last week. The jailing of Istanbul mayor Ekr ...

Imamoglu, the popular mayor of Istanbul, is a threat to the longtime President in the next election.

Earlier this week, President Donald Trump spoke with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Trump likes Erdoğan; he sees someone he believes he can deal with in Turkey’s president.

In targeting a political rival for corruption, the Erdoğan government is widely seen as distorting the rule of law in Turkey ...