President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has taken Turkey closer to autocracy with the arrest of the elected mayor of Istanbul, but the scale of the ensuing protests could yet shake his grip, analysts say. Long accused by opponents of presiding over a drift into authoritarianism, analysts say Erdogan crossed a new line with the arrest last … Read more
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan entered this year facing a knot of political problems with little precedent in his two decades at the summit of power in Turkey. Voters were angry about persistently high inflation. His political party’s popularity had sunk. And his opponents had coalesced around the mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem Imamoglu, who made it … Read more
Hundreds of thousands of people rallied in Istanbul late Friday to protest the arrest of the city’s opposition mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu, defying a warning from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that Turkey would not tolerate “street terrorism”. It was the third straight night that demonstrators had rallied against the arrest of Imamoglu — Erdogan’s biggest political … Read more
Turkish riot police fired teargas and rubber bullets on Thursday, as demonstrators protested for a second night outside Istanbul City Hall over the shock arrest of the Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu in a graft and terror probe. The powerful and popular Imamoglu — who is President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s main political rival — was detained before … Read more
Credit: Maura Healey and TDKR Chicago 101 via Wikimedia The U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is expected to question four U.S. mayors about their cities’ immigration policies Wednesday. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, Denver Mayor Mike Johnston and New York City Mayor Eric Adams have been asked to discuss … Read more