Who is Ekrem Imamoglu & Why Has His Arrest Led to Protests in Turkiye? | Vantage with Palki Sharma | N18G Turkey, or Turkiye, is seeing its biggest protests since 2013. They began last Wednesday, after the arrest of the mayor of Istanbul Ekrem Imamoglu.

Officials in Istanbul elected an interim replacement on Wednesday for the Turkish city’s popular mayor, who is being held in custody on corruption charges. Members of the municipal council representing Turkey’s largest city selected deputy chairman Nuri Aslan as an interim mayor to replace Ekrem Imamoglu,

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

A massive Istanbul demonstration over the arrest and jailing of opposition presidential candidate Ekrem Imamoglu and the fate of democracy in Turkey is planned for Saturday (May 29). There will be concern that the event could prove a fateful test of the willpower of the opposition and the movement to free Imamoglu and the ruling regime.

Turkey's justice minister said on Thursday the decision to arrest Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu was based on criminal reports and not linked to the timing of the opposition CHP party's selection of Imamoglu as its presidential candidate.

Due to the domestic political situation in Turkey, Berlin's Governing Mayor Kai Wegner has canceled a trip to Istanbul planned for the week after next.