The arrest of Imamogu last Wednesday has released a huge wave of protests throughout the country in recent days.
A court in Istanbul has imposed preventive detention on the mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem Imamoglu, social -democratic leader and most important rival of the president of Türkiye, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The arrest of Imamogu last Wednesday has released a huge wave of protests throughout the country in recent days.
The opinion refers to the accusation of corruption and bribes, one of the two judicial causes open to him, while the judges decided not to place measures in the trial due to alleged cooperation with a terrorist group, in reference to the Kurdish guerrillas.
The mayor’s arrest, on Wednesday morning, brought huge protests not only in Istanbul, but also in many other cities, with at least hundreds of thousands of people demonstrating against what they consider a political process to eliminate an Erdogan rival.
The Imamoglu party, the social -democratic, had announced that it would present the popular mayor as a presidential candidate in the next elections, planned for 2028, although the opposition claims that they will continue.
The same Sunday, a symbolic mood throughout Turkey started, in which the CHP -Gelioded enterprises and their supporters can introduce a mood in an urn named Imamoglu to express their support.
Source: EITB
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