Arrest of Istanbul mayor İmamoğlu sparks student protests across Turkey

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Ekrem Imamoglu, who is President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's main political rival, was detained by hundreds of police before dawn on Wednesday, four days before being named as the main opposition CHP's candidate for the 2028 race.
The News International
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CHP leader Özgür Özel spoke to a large crowd outside the Istanbul Municipality building in Saraçhane on March 19, calling the detention of Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu a “coup attempt.”
Hürriyet Daily News
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Now, the detainments have expanded in scope to target users of social media deemed a threat.
The Gazette
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Speaking on arrival at an EU leaders’ summit in Brussels, Scholz sharply criticized the detention of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu as “a very, very bad sign” for Turkey’s democracy and relations with the EU — and urged the Turkish leadership to put “an immediate end to this.”
Politico Europe

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