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Agence France-Presse on MSN14h
Turkey courts order release of 107 students held over protests
Turkish courts on Thursday ordered the release of at least 107 students arrested during massive protests against the jailing ...
The Economist16h
Turkey’s government is trying to repress its way out of a crisis
Hundreds of thousands of people came out in Istanbul on March 29th to demand the release of Turkey’s best-known recent ...
Turkish opposition party reelects chairman following arrest of Istanbul mayor
Turkey's main opposition party has reelected its chairman two weeks after the arrest of the mayor of Istanbul, the party's ...
Facing a government crackdown on dissent, Turkey's protesters put aside their differences
The arrest of an opposition presidential candidate last month has triggered the largest anti-government protests Turkey has ...
Turkey makes 11 arrests over shopping-boycott campaign in support of Istanbul's imprisoned mayor
ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish police detained 11 people on Thursday for supporting a shopping boycott as part of protests against ...
The Armenian Weekly8d
The political and geopolitical implications of Ekrem İmamoğlu’s arrest for Turkey
The recent arrest of Istanbul’s Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu has escalated political conflicts within Turkey and critically ...
The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel8d
British band Muse cancels planned Istanbul gig
British rock band Muse said Wednesday that it had cancelled a coming gig in Istanbul, after a backlash from fans at the ...
Al-Monitor8d
Turkey fines Meta for refusing to restrict Facebook, Instagram over Imamoglu protests
Unlike X, which has suspended social media accounts at the request of the Turkish government, Meta says it has faced heavy ...
Turkey’s protests over the arrest of an Erdogan rival take a new angle: Boycott shopping
Protests that erupted across Turkey following the arrest of the main challenger to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan have taken ...
Istanbul prosecutor investigates opposition boycott calls in wake of mayor’s arrest
Istanbul’s public prosecutor’s office has launched an investigation into recent opposition calls for a boycott of pro-government businesses following the arrest of the city’s mayor.