President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has tacitly accused İmamoğlu, his main political rival, and the Istanbul mayoralty of presiding over a “criminal organisation” in the city, calling it “a sprawling octopus with tentacles reaching” international business and intelligence agencies.

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Some of my most vivid memories from my first visit to Istanbul in the 1970s are of the colorful locals. Scruffy kids sold cherry juice, and old men would grab huge cucumbers from wheeled carts, peel,

AI study finds 97,000+ traffic accidents in the city last year, with experts urging better transit, planning and population control to ease congestion

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Ahmet Çiçek, owner of an advertising company who was detained in a corruption case involving Istanbul’s former mayor Ekrem Imamoğlu and his

Trump announced he will speak Monday by phone with Putin and Zelenskyy days after peace talks in Istanbul end with planned prisoner exchange