24 March 2025, 13:19

By Ibrahim Dogus

Turkey is ablaze with protest.

The arrest of Ekrem Imamoglu, Istanbul’s charismatic mayor and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s most potent rival, has sparked the largest demonstrations since the 2013 Gezi Park uprising.

On March 19, 2025, Imamoglu was detained on flimsy charges of corruption and alleged ties to the PKK—claims that conveniently surfaced days before his expected nomination as the opposition CHP’s presidential candidate. By March 23, he was jailed, his university degree annulled in a bizarre twist, and the streets erupted. This is no coincidence; it’s a calculated strike against a man who beat Erdogan’s AK Party in Istanbul twice,........

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