Turkish justice ordered the mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem Imamoglu on Sunday. The arrest of the main opponent of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Wednesday, March 19, caused a wave of protest throughout the country. Hundreds of thousands of people gathered in 55 of the 81 Turkish provinces, according to an AFP count.
The Republican People's Party (CHP, Social Democrat), the main opposition force to which the mayor of Istanbul belongs, denounced “A political coup”. “I will never fold, everything will be fine”promised the elected official in a message published on the social network X by his lawyers.
Ekrem Imamoglu was to attend this CHP candidate on Sunday, March 23, March 23, March 23 for the next presidential election, scheduled for 2028.
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