Turkey is no ‘partner’ of the U.S.

The arrest of İmamoğlu, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s most serious opposition challenger, has spooked markets and triggered Turkey’s largest protests in more than a decade amid dark ...

Over the course of the last 22 years, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey has fought and endured a great deal in order to remain in power. Court challenges, corruption investigations, close ...

Erdoğan said European security is ‘unthinkable without Turkey’ after White House warned that the continent must look after its own security. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has sought ...

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.

Narratives on those presumably green-lighting the escalation of authoritarianism in Turkey after the detention of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu.

Turkey is cracking down on large protests triggered by the arrest of Ekrem İmamoğlu, Istanbul Mayor and rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Turkish authorities have arrested several ...

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 ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has claimed that protests over the jailing of Istanbul's mayor had become a "movement of violence" and that the main opposition party would be held ...

Last week, Turkish authorities arrested Ekrem Imamoğlu, the mayor of Istanbul and the expected leading challenger to Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in the country’s next Presidential election ...

As Recep Tayyip Erdoğan climbed the first step on the long path to political power in Türkiye, the man who would attempt to threaten his rule was wrapping up his studies at Istanbul University.