The detention follows a wave of arrests and protests sparked by the March 19 arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu.

Police detain a demonstrator during a protest against the imprisonment of leading Turkish opposition politician and Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu of the Republican People's Party (CHP). More than ...

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The protests erupted after Imamoglu, widely seen as Erdogan’s strongest opponent, was detained on 19 March and jailed a few ...

ISTANBUL — Dozens of Turkish customs officers have been detained in a bribery investigation ... into graft at the Kapikule border gate on the Turkey-Bulgaria frontier. A police surveillance ...

Turkish police have detained 525 suspected drug dealers in dawn operations across the capital, Ankara, in what Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya described as the biggest anti-narcotics operation in the ...

ISTANBUL (AP) — Dozens of people including journalists appeared before a court in Istanbul on Friday, accused of attending ...

Writers Timur Soykan of BirGun and Cumhuriyet’s Murat Agirel were arrested at their homes on charges of making threats and blackmail in an investigation by the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s ...

"We have detained 234 high-level crime organisation leaders, 225 from inside Turkey and nine from abroad ... Middle Eastcategory Israeli strikes hit dozens of targets in Gaza as ceasefire ...

Turkish authorities on Thursday detained at least 11 people suspected ... and his detention set off a wave of mass protests not seen in Turkey for more than a decade. Nearly 2,000 people ...

Turkish state-run media says dozens of customs officers have been detained in a bribery investigation focused on Europe’s busiest border crossing ...