Arrest of Istanbul mayor ‘not the first time’ Erdogan has gone after a political rival

As Turkey was rocked by another night of mass protests over the arrest of Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, Dr. Pinar Dinc, Researcher and Associate Professor at Lund University’s Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies, explains to France 24 how Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has used similar tactics to take out political rivals in the past.

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Post from France 24 on March 24, 2025

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