[ad_1] Ekrem Imamoglu has been arrested, interrogated, jailed and stripped of his mayorship in less than a week. Istanbul, Turkey: Istanbul’s embattled Ekrem Imamoglu was officially nominated as a presidential candidate by the opposition CHP party for the 2028 elections, a party spokesman told AFP on Monday. The Republican People’s Party (CHP) — the main…
[ad_1] A Turkish court jailed Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu on Sunday pending trial on graft charges, state media and other broadcasters said, in a move likely to stoke the country’s biggest protests against President Tayyip Erdogan’s government in more than a decade. The decision to send Imamoglu, Erdogan’s main political rival, to prison comes after…
[ad_1] Istanbul: Hundreds of thousands of people rallied in Istanbul late Friday to protest the arrest of the city’s opposition mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu, defying a warning from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that Turkey would not tolerate “street terrorism”. It was the third straight night that demonstrators had rallied against the arrest of Imamoglu — Erdogan’s…
