Istanbul, March 21, 2025 (AFP) - Hundreds of thousands defy Erdogan to protest Istanbul mayor's arrest

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2025-03-21

Hundreds of thousands of people rallied in Istanbul late Friday to protest the arrest of the city's opposition mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu, defying a warning from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that Turkey would not tolerate "street terrorism". It was the third straight night that demonstrators had rallied against the arrest of Imamoglu -- Erdogan's biggest political rival -- in Turkey's biggest street protests in more than a decade. Opposition leader......

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