EU’s Turkey rapporteur visits jailed İstanbul mayor, says Turkey’s EU future ‘begins in Silivri’ - Stockholm Center for Freedom

Calling for participation in the rally to be held by the CHP in Antalya on June 1, the arrested Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu said, "They think we will give up, they think this nation will remain silent."

EU’s Turkey rapporteur visits jailed İstanbul mayor, says Turkey’s EU future ‘begins in Silivri’ - Stockholm Center for Freedom

Nacho Sánchez Amor, the European Parliament’s rapporteur on Turkey, visited jailed İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu on Friday at Marmara Prison in Silivri, expressing strong solidarity and declaring that Turkey’s future in the European Union “begins in Silivri.” İmamoğlu, a senior member of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) and his party’s presidential candidate for the next election, was detained on March 19 and later arrested on…