Istanbul, March 21, 2025 (AFP) - Turkey braces for more protests over Istanbul mayor's arrest

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Turkey braced for a third day of protests on Friday, as anger spread across the country over the arrest of Istanbul's popular Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu in a graft and terror probe. Imamoglu, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's main political rival, was arrested at dawn on Wednesday, just days before he was due to be named the candidate for the main opposition CHP party in the 2028 presidential election. His party has denounced the detention as a "coup"......

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