Istanbul Council Elects Interim Mayor After Imamoglu’s Jailing Sparks Massive Protests | N18G

facebook sharing buttontwitter sharing buttonreddit sharing buttonwhatsapp sharing buttonemail sharing buttonsharethis sharing buttonIstanbul’s municipal council elected an interim mayor on Wednesday to run the city following the imprisonment of Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu pending trial on corruption charges that he and his supporters deny and call politicised, Reuters has quoted broadcaster NTV as saying.The detention of Imamoglu last week triggered the largest anti-government demonstrations in Turkiye in over a decade and led to mass arrests, as hundreds of thousands heeded opposition calls and took to the streets in mostly peaceful protests. The jailed mayor is the biggest political rival of President Recep Tayyip ErdoganImamoglu’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), Western leaders, other opposition parties and rights groups have said that his imprisonment since Sunday is an anti-democratic move aimed at eliminating an electoral threat to Erdogan. ğlu News18 Mobile App - https://onelink.to/desc-youtube