Hundreds of thousands of people joined a massive opposition protest in Istanbul on Saturday, rallying to defend democracy after the arrest of city mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, AFP said. Ozgur Ozel, leader of the main opposition CHP which organised the protest, told demonstrators there were 2.2 million people in the crowd, ...
Turkish authorities have detained the mayor of Istanbul, just days before he was due to be selected as a presidential candidate. Ekrem Imamoglu, from the secular Republican People’s Party (CHP), is seen as one of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s strongest political rivals. Prosecutors accused him of corruption and aiding ...
