Grammy-nominated Turkish composer and musician Mehmet Ali Sanlikol fuses traditional Turkish music with other genres and ...

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Sanlikol’s singular oud transforms centuries-old Turkish sounds and — when the urge strikes —allows him to unleash his inner rock star. It all started in Istanbul, where Sanlikol grew up and ...

But crowds in some cities have been chanting anti-government slogans and, in Istanbul, they hung banners of Imamoglu and the nation’s founding leader Mustafa Kemal Ataturk alongside Turkish flags.

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish police on Wednesday arrested Istanbul’s mayor — a popular opposition leader and key rival of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan — and several other prominent figures as ...

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Turkish authorities detained President Tayyip Erdogan's main political rival on Wednesday on charges including corruption and aiding a terrorist group, in what the main opposition party called "a ...

Ekrem Imamoglu speaks to supporters in Istanbul, January 2025. Photo: EPA-EFE/ERDEM SAHIN. The Turkish lira took an immediate dive on Wednesday morning after the detention of the opposition’s ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Turkish police have detained Istanbul’s mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, the main political challenger to ...

Turkish police detained Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu from his home on Wednesday, just one day after his university revoked his diploma—a decision that could prevent him from running in the next ...