Demonstrators defy protest ban after Turkish police arrest rival to President Erdogan | DW News

Istanbul's mayor is detained in Turkey. Ekrem Imamoglu faces charges of corruption and aiding a terrorist group. The raid comes just days before he was expected to be named as a presidential challenger to Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

00:00 Protests after Ekrem Imamoglu arrested and charged
00:26 DW Correspondent Julia Hahn reports on the charges the opposition leader faces
03:39 Karol Wasilewski from Centre for Eastern Studies in Warsaw calls the arrest an anti-democratic move
09:11 Asli Aydıntaşbaş, journalist and visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution explains what Imamoglu's party might do next

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Post from DW News on March 19, 2025

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