Tens of thousands gathered in Istanbul with unrest likely to continue over treatment of presidential challenger to Erdoğan
Turkish authorities have detained nine journalists who covered overnight protests against the arrest of Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, the Journalists Union of Turkey said, Reuters reports.
A Turkish court on Sunday jailed İmamoğlu, president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s main political rival, pending trial on corruption charges in a move that triggered the country’s biggest protests in more than a decade.
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