[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] Istanbul: On Sunday, a court ordered Istanbul’s opposition mayor Ekrem Imamoglu and several dozen co-defendants jailed on charges of “corruption”. Here’s what we know about this case, which the mayor’s CHP opposition party has denounced as a “political coup” organised by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Who is Ekrem Imamoglu? Ekrem Imamoglu was elected mayor…
[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…
