The imprisonment of five mayors of the Social Democratic Republican People’s Party (CHP), the main formation of the opposition, was ordered by Turkish justice today. Three of the mayors are heads of Istanbul Municipal Districts, a CHP spokesman told the French agency. Seventeen other people, who were also arrested over the weekend, including the deputy mayors of Istanbul Municipal Districts, were also placed under temporary detention for “corruption”. In addition to the mayor of Constantinople Ekrem Imamoglou, who has been in prison since late March, eight mayors of Istanbul apartments, who belong to the CHP, have been arrested and detained by the end of October. According to observers, the government is trying to weaken the CHP, which had been the winner of the local elections of Spring 2024 against the Islamist Conservative Justice and Development (AKP) Party (AKP) by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The CHP, which had managed to hold Constantinople, Ankara and Smyrna, its three largest cities in its elections, […]
Source: News Beast
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