Tag: Ekrem Imamoglu
Turkey’s interior ministry has launched a probe into the Istanbul mayor over his opposition to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s dream of building an alternative to the Bosphorus Strait, the mayor’s spokesman said Monday. Erdogan argues ...
Aug 25, 2020 Istanbul’s mayoral race was held twice in 2019, and opposition candidate Ekrem Imamoglu won both times. Fast forward from June 27, 2019 — the day Imamoglu, from the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), accepted the position ...
Even though no tender date has been set for the construction of Turkey’s controversial Canal Istanbul, a project touted as “crazy” by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in 2011, the land buying spree in Istanbul’s ...
COVID-19 could strengthen global resilience against populist authoritarianism. Those movements should also learn from each other. In Turkey under populist authoritarian rule, despite all the pressure, exclusion and fragmentation tactics of the government, there is ...
İstanbul’s new mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu in a city tram. İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu has said the city’s plans to revive three rail system projects are currently blocked by the Undersecretariat of the Treasury, the BirGün ...
His election victory was a stinging indictment of President Erdogan’s economic policies. Erdogan’s party had already lost Turkey’s capital, Ankara, and other big cities in March balloting as inflation, unemployment, and a plunging lira took ...
Istanbul has been forced to turn to foreign banks to find money for frozen infrastructure projects because Turkey’s state lenders have refused financing for the municipality since President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s party lost control of ...
The new law — currently being prepared by the Ministry of Environment and Urban Planning — will shift jurisdiction over development along the Bosporus. (Shutterstock) Supporters of the new draft law say it will resolve ...
Ekrem İmamoğlu, the newly elected mayor of İstanbul, has received executives from Amedspor, a football club based in the predominantly Kurdish Southeast, the Bold Medya news website reported. “I had promised to stand with them,” ...
Over the last couple of months, the world has observed a relatively surprising picture: a kind and gentle Recep Tayyip Erdogan. He is ready to embrace Israel, declare the future of Turkey in the European Union (EU), ...