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 ...
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 ...
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 ...