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2025-03-24 The Grand Turk
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Turkish court jails Istanbul Mayor Imamoglu pending trial
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[NYPOST] A Ottoman Turkish court tossed in the slammer
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Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu on Sunday pending trial on graft charges, state media and other broadcasters said, in a move likely to stoke the country's biggest protests against President Tayyip Erdogan's government in more than a decade.
The decision to send Imamoglu, Erdogan's main political rival, to prison comes after the main opposition party, European leaders and tens of thousands of protesters criticized the actions against him as politicized and undemocratic.
The court said Imamoglu, 54, and at least 20 others were tossed in the slammer
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as part of a corruption investigation, one of two that were opened against him last week.
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