A new wave of popular protest is gathering strength in Turkey, where President Erdoğan is showing increasing signs of ...

an authoritarian man with unlimited power leading a conservative Christian theocracy. In this new regime, the only people who truly matter will be aggressive, white, heterosexual male conservative ...

Umit Bektas/Reuters Supported by By Ben Hubbard Reporting from Istanbul Turkey has been plunged into a political crisis after the authorities arrested Ekrem Imamoglu, the mayor of Istanbul and the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

The church is openly Christian nationalist, which means the leaders advocate for using the government to force their religious beliefs on the nation — basically, theocracy. Hegseth himself has ...

Nearly 1,900 people have been arrested so far, officials said. A week-long protest erupted in Turkey following the arrest of Istanbul’s Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, the president’s top political rival.

Jailing of Istanbul mayor prompts biggest protests in a decade Opposition targets TV broadcasters, advertisers, media owners Accuses pro-government media of ignoring the protests Turkey ranks ...

Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been running Turkey for 22 years, and has spent much of that time eroding its democracy. His government controls the courts, the security apparatus and almost all the media.

Perhaps Mr Witkoff was referring to America’s prospective sale of F-35 jets to Turkey, or to the country’s offer to mediate in Ukraine. But that he said nothing about the arrest on March 19th ...

Iran said Turkey’s criticism of its foreign policy risked worsening ties between the neighboring countries, after an opposition coalition allied with Ankara ousted Syria’s Bashar al-Assad.

A group of bipartisan House lawmakers are introducing legislation to redesignate Turkey as a Near Eastern country at the State Department, rather than a European country, as Ankara has moved away ...