Turkey detains scores of opposition party members in Izmir

Turkey detains 120 opposition officials including former mayor

Turkish authorities have detained a former mayor and over 100 officials in Izmir over allegations of corruption

Turkey detains scores of opposition party members in Izmir

The arrests came after a similar operation in Istanbul earlier this year that saw the arrest of its mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, the principal political rival of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Exodus review – broadside against Erdoğan’s Turkey takes the multi-narrative, multi-character route

Serkan Nihat’s story follows a group of Turkish fugitives, but it bites off rather more than it can chewThe cinematic response to populism and incipient fascism worldwide over the last decade hasn’t fully mobilised – but this broadside on the authoritarian leanings of Erdoğan’s Turkey doesn’t pull its punches. (Unsurprisingly, it’s produced by a UK-based team.) It’s a shame then that, lambasting the effects on education, policing, freedom of exp…