Protests that erupted across Turkey following the arrest of the main challenger to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan have taken a new direction with calls for a one-day shopping boycott.

Hundreds of thousands of protesters again congregated in Istanbul Saturday to how their support for the city’s imprisoned mayor and demand his release.

Police have used pepper spray, plastic pellets and water cannon against protesters in Turkey’s capital.

Turkey’s president has accused the political opposition of “sinking the economy” during the country’s largest protests in more than a decade.

The head of Turkey’s main opposition party has visited jailed Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu after six nights of massive protests calling for his release.

A media workers' union says Turkish authorities have arrested several journalists at their homes.

Prosecutors have requested that detained Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, the top challenger to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, be formally arrested over allegations of corruption and terror links.

Thousands of people have gathered outside Istanbul’s city hall for a second consecutive night to rally against the arrest of the city’s popular mayor.

Turkish police have detained 282 suspects in a large-scale operation targeting the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK.

Witnesses have described standing helplessly and paralyzed by the horror of people screaming for help or jumping out of windows as flames tore through a 12-story hotel at a popular ski resort.

Officials in Turkey say that a fire has raged through a 12-story hotel at a popular ski resort in the northwestern part of the country during a school holiday, killing at least 76 people.

Gaza’s Health Ministry says more than 46,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israel-Hamas war, with no end in sight to the 15-month conflict.

Syrian refugees across Turkey have jubilantly welcomed the downfall of Bashar Assad’s government with many embracing the chance to return to their homeland.

Workers and activists around the world are marking May Day with largely peaceful rallies against rising prices and calling for greater rights.

Local media in Turkey say one person was killed and seven injured when a cable car in the south of the country hit a pole and burst open, sending the passengers plummeting to the mountainside below.

Turkish state media say authorities have detained four people in connection with a massive landslide that engulfed a gold mine in eastern Turkey, leaving at least nine workers missing.

Nine workers are believed to be trapped underground after a huge landslide hit a gold mine in eastern Turkey.

Two people have attacked Turkey’s most well-known courthouse before being shot dead.

The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for an attack on a Roman Catholic church in Istanbul during Mass that killed one person.

Turkish officials say two masked assailants attacked a Roman Catholic church in Istanbul, killing one person.

The head of the Turkish Football Federation says domestic soccer league matches will resume on Dec. 19.

Turkish warplanes have carried out new airstrikes against suspected Kurdish militant sites in northern Iraq days after a suicide bomb attack in the Turkish capital.

Fierce rainstorms are battering neighboring Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria, causing at least seven deaths.

A Turkish official says authorities are working to understand how a former British officer who helped found the White Helmets volunteer aid group in Syria died. Turkish police believe he fell to his death and are investigating the circumstances. Istanbul governor Ali Yerlikaya told reporters Tuesday: "Our chief prosecutor's office, our police are engaged in multifaceted efforts to shed light on the incident." Le Mesurier was the founder and CEO of May Day Rescue, which established and trained the White Helmets, also known as the Syria Civil Defense, a group of local humanitarian volunteers. Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency reported he was 48 and had moved to Turkey with his wife four years ago.