WSJ Updated on: Nov 13, 2025 10:58 am IST His top political rival now faces up to 2,352 years in prison. Turkey’s authoritarian President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan doesn’t merely want his main political rival locked up. He wants to bury the key in the sands of time—for more than two millennia. Witness the charges brought…
ISTANBUL (AP) — Six leading Turkish journalists were summoned to testify to police Thursday in connection with allegations that they disseminated false information in reports about Istanbul’s imprisoned opposition mayor. The chief prosecutor’s office in Istanbul said police had been instructed to take the journalists’ statements as part of an investigation into the “Imamoglu criminal…
In 2007, eight years after becoming Venezuela’s president, Hugo Chávez revoked the license of the country’s oldest private television station. Eight months into his second term, President Donald Trump suggested revoking the licenses of U.S. television stations he believes are overly critical of him. Since he returned to office in January, Trump’s remaking of the…
ISTANBUL (Reuters) -An Istanbul court on Wednesday sentenced Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, the main rival of Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan, to a fresh prison term, state broadcaster TRT reported, extending a crackdown on the opposition. Imamoglu, who has been in jail pending trial since March over separate corruption charges, was sentenced to one year and…