At least four waves of arrests have decimated the leadership of the Istanbul municipality. In addition to the mayor and opposition leader, more than 200 people are in jail. The CHP accuses the governm ...

Chief among them is Selahattin Demirtaş, who challenged Erdoğan for the presidency in 2014 and 2018 and has been jailed since 2016 — despite a European Court of Human Rights ruling that his ...

Özgür Özel, president of the Republican People's Party (CHP), at his party's headquarters, in Istanbul, on March 28, 2025. LE MONDE. ... Selahattin Demirtaş.

Police detain a demonstrator who participated in a protest during the country-wide unrest over the arrest of the Istanbul Metropolitan Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu. ... Moreover, Selahattin Demirtaş, a ...

Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, ... Özel called for the immediate release of İmamoğlu, as well as for other political prisoners including Selahattin Demirtaş, ...

The former Kurdish presidential candidate and party co-leader Selahattin Demirtaş has been jailed since 2016. ... Erdoğan arrested Ekrem İmamoğlu, the popular mayor of Istanbul.

The formal order by an Istanbul court to detain Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu is the latest example of the justice system weaponized to remove a leading opposition ... Selahattin Demirtaş, ...

In İstanbul, Turkey’s largest city, Ekrem İmamoğlu—who defeated President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Justice and Development Party ... where Selahattin Demirtaş, ...

Ekrem İmamoğlu speaks to supporters in Istanbul on January 31. Erdem Sahin / EPA. İmamoğlu was born in Akçaabat, a district of Trabzon province on north-east Turkey’s Black Sea coast.

Selahattin Demirtaş, a charismatic Kurdish opposition leader who challenged Erdoğan for the presidency, has been in prison since 2016, despite a European Court of Human Rights ruling that he was ...

HDP Genel Başkanları Selahattin Demirtaş ve Figen Yüksekdağ, 2015 [Photo: Yıldız Yazıcıoğlu ... 50 people were arrested while trying to celebrate May Day in Taksim Square in Istanbul.