Imamoglu, President Tayyip Erdogan's biggest political rival who leads him in some polls, was jailed pending trial for graft on Sunday. His...

"Turkey will not surrender to street terror," Erdogan said as the leader of the main opposition CHP called for nationwide protests later on...

In 2014, he became the country's first popularly elected president and was elected again in 2018 after securing new executive powers for th...

What is astonishing is how the majority of Turkish people elected Erdogan despite a worsening economy and now chronic hyperinflation that w...

Victory would extend Erdogan's two-decade reign, securing a mandate to continue his increasingly authoritarian rule which has polarised Tur...

Ogan, a former academic who was backed by a far-right anti-migrant party, won 5.17 per cent in the May 14 vote and could hold the key to vi...

The ultimate political survivor, Erdogan, 69, has overcome jail and a bloody 2016 coup attempt to emerge as Turkey's most important leader ...

State-run Anadolu news agency's latest figures show Erdogan's lead under 50 per cent and his main challenger, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, over 44 p...

Citing manipulation in the reporting of early results in previous elections, Istanbul's opposition mayor Ekrem Imamoglu said on TV that no ...

The Hagia Sophia was built as a Byzantine cathedral -- once the world's largest -- before being transformed into a mosque by the Ottomans. ...

Opposition leaders and social media users criticised the throttling of the platform, which has helped people share information on arriving ...

Exacerbating a cost of living crisis, consumer prices accelerated to 61.14 percent at an annual rate, up from 54.4 percent in February, acc...

The Turkish Statistical Institute said the consumer price index increased by just over 11% in January from the previous month. The yearly i...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is suing Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders after the anti-Islam politician posted a series of tweets agai...

A crowd of President Erdogan's supporters chanted his name as he emerged from a school after voting in Turkey's largest city Istanbul.

First results had been expected to give Erdogan and his Islamist-rooted AK Party a strong lead- one that could shorten as more votes are ta...

This supermajority would allow the AKP, under Erdogan's guidance, to launch a referendum aimed at changing the Turkish constitution.