Widespread Protests in Turkey After Erdogan’s Judges Jail Popular Opposition Candidate Ahead of Primary Election
The expected challenger to President Erdogan, Ekrem Imamoglu, tells people to get out the vote despite his ‘execution without trial.’
A Turkish court has ordered Turkey’s leading candidate to challenge the country’s long-running president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, held in jail on corruption charges amid voting Sunday to elect Mr. Erdogan’s challenger in the 2028 election.
Istanbul’s popular mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu, was charged with multiple counts of bribery and corruption as well as aiding a designated terror group, the Kurdish PKK. The bribery charges precede Mr. Imamoglu’s time as mayor, dating to his leadership of a nearby municipality in 2014.
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