Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan is working to secure a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House, potentially by late April, Bloomberg News said on Tuesday, citing Turkish officials familiar with the matter.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is working to secure a meeting with Donald Trump at the White House, possibly toward the end of April, according to Turkish officials familiar with the matter.

Istanbul's powerful mayor Ekrem Imamoglu is President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's biggest political rival who has had hurdle after hurdle thrown at him to stop him making a bid for Turkey's top job. He was a political unknown until he managed to unseat Erdogan's AKP and its allies in 2019 from their 25-year dominance of the city of 16 million where the president was once himself mayor.

Istanbul University has annulled Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu's university diploma over irregularities with the Higher Education Board's (YOK) regulations, it said on Tuesday. The university's move came amid a government crackdown on opposition figures,

A Turkish university on Tuesday revoked the university degree of Istanbul's powerful mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, the biggest political rival of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on grounds it was falsely obtained.