Turkish police arrest Istanbul mayor, a key Erdogan rival, as government crackdown escalates
He was arrested as part of an investigation into alleged corruption and terror links, media reported, a day after a ...
What we know about Istanbul’s mayor and why he was arrested
Ekrem Imamoglu, the mayor of Istanbul and a popular figure, had boasted jokingly that he was the only person to have beaten Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling party in three local elections.