#Ekrem Imamoglu

When Turkey’s opposition made big gains in local elections in March 2024, its leaders believed they had finally found a way to defeat long-serving President Tayyip Erdogan. More than two ...

Jailed Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu said on Wednesday he was joining the newly formed New Party, after a court order removed the leadership of his former Republican People’s Party (...

Jailed Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu on Saturday evening moved to defend himself over accusations that he had erected a statue of the Republic of Cyprus’ founding president Archbishop Makarios III ...

Almost one year after he was jailed, Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu has told Reuters that Tayyip Erdogan should call elections “now” and predicted that the president would lose if he ...

A Turkish court has issued another formal arrest order for Istanbul’s jailed mayor Ekrem Imamoglu on suspicion of “political espionage”, state-owned Anadolu news agency said on Monday, stepping up ...

Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, who has been in custody since being arrested in March, on Sunday said Turkey has a duty to respect the Turkish Cypriots’ will ahead of next ...

Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu on Friday said the Turkish authorities would even deny the existence of northern Cyprus so as to be able to revoke his bachelor’s degree. He ...

Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu has had a second of his degrees revoked by Istanbul University, with the university on Monday night announcing that it had elected to cancel his master’...

Access to the X account of jailed Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, President Tayyip Erdogan’s main political rival, has been blocked in Turkey in response to a legal demand, a ...

Turkey’s government denounced opposition calls for a mass commercial boycott following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu that sparked nationwide protests, describing them on Wednesday as an economic “...

Hundreds of thousands of Turks protested in Istanbul on Saturday against the jailing of Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, President Tayyip Erdogan’s main rival, sustaining the largest demonstrations Turkey has seen ...

Many Turkish anti-government protesters said they were bracing for a long-term standoff after six nights of action and scattered clashes with police over the jailing of Istanbul’s mayor, rejecting ...

Hundreds of people took to the streets in northern Nicosia on Friday evening to protest against the arrest of Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu. The protest was organised by the Cyprus ...

Thousands of Turks ramped up protests on Thursday despite a ban on street gatherings over what they called the undemocratic detention of Istanbul’s mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, as the opposition ...

Turkish Cypriot politicians on Wednesday decried the arrest of Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu. Former Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci was among the first to react to Imamoglu’s arrest, being ...

Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu was on Wednesday morning arrested, hours after his university degree was revoked and two days before his party the CHP was set to name him as ...

Turkish authorities detained President Tayyip Erdogan’s main political rival on Wednesday on charges including corruption and aiding a terrorist group, in what the main opposition party called “a coup ...

Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu’s degree was on Tuesday revoked by Istanbul University over a report which found that the university in northern Cyprus at which he began his studies ...

Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu’s lawyer Mehmet Pehlivanli on Tuesday announced that he had filed criminal charges against the three people who had signed a report which declared that the ...

Serhat Akpinar, the founding rector of Kyrenia’s Girne American University and current Turkish Cypriot ‘MP’ for ruling coalition party the DP, on Thursday defended the legality of the studies ...

An investigation has been launched in Turkey into Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu over allegations that documents related to his transfer from a university in northern Cyprus to one in Turkey ...

Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, who won a second term in office in a landslide victory on Sunday, was once a footballer in Cyprus. Imamoglu, who was born near the Black ...