By Akin Nazli in Belgrade The trajectory of Turkey's international reserves and macroeconomic policy settings will be key in assessing any sovereign credit implications of the recent political events in the country,

Unlike X, which has suspended social media accounts at the request of the Turkish government, Meta says it has faced heavy fines in Turkey for refusing to do so.

Turkey has arrested the lawyer for jailed political opposition leader and Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu in what Imamoglu Thursday called a legal coup against democracy.

Bremmer is a foreign affairs columnist and editor-at-large at TIME. A protester waves Turkey's national flag before riot police as protesters flash the grey-wolf salute during a demonstration ...

The Istanbul mayor was temporarily suspended from his duties after his formal arrest by an Istanbul court on Sunday.

The mayor of Istanbul is President Erdogan's most serious rival and was about to be selected as an opposition candidate in presidential elections. Shortly before that could happen, Ekrem Imamoglu was arrested.

The rally, which begins at 0900 GMT in Maltepe on the Asian side of Istanbul, is the first such CHP-led gathering since Tuesday and comes on the eve of the Eid al-Fitr celebration marking the end of Ramadan,

Still, the March 19 arrest of Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu—widely seen as Erdogan’s chief rival and the opposition CHP’s likely candidate in the 2028 presidential race—shocked even seasoned observers. The charges, widely viewed as politically motivated, triggered mass protests, arrests, a media crackdown, and a ban on public gatherings.