Turkish citizens defy crackdown with mass vote for jailed Istanbul mayor Imamoglu

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His detention on Wednesday morning sparked the largest wave of street demonstrations in Turkey in more than a decade, with large crowds gathering outside city hall for the fifth night in a row.
The Independent
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Erdoğan’s political rivals have little doubt this is exactly what the man who would be caliph is aiming to do — ditch what’s left of Turkey’s democracy by neutralizing the country’s main opposition and shift to full-bore autocracy.
Politico Europe
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The wife of Istanbul's embattled mayor Ekrem Imamoglu has addressed a huge crowd of people who were protesting for the fifth consecutive night since his arrest.
Deutsche Welle
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Ekrem Imamoglu, the mayor of Istanbul and one of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's main politically rivals, had been due to be formally nominated as the Republican People's Party (CHP) 2028 presidential nominee in a vote yesterday.
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