Mayor of Turkey’s Fourth-Largest City Among 55 Detained in Continuing Crackdown on Opposition - Stockholm Center for Freedom
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In Bursa, authorities have again arrested a CHP mayor. Human rights organisations speak of an instrumentalisation of justice.
In five provinces, the authorities raided. More than 50 people were arrested.
In Turkey, another opposition mayor has come under investigation, and not just any mayor: Bursa, the country's fourth-largest city, located in northwestern Anatolia. Mayor Mustafa Bozbey, a member of the CHP (Republican People's Party), has been in custody since Tuesday morning, March 31, as part of a corruption investigation. Fifty-four people were arrested with him, and four are wanted. This operation is the latest in a long series that has al…
In the Turkish city of Bursa, authorities have again arrested a mayor of the largest opposition party CHP.
The metropolitan mayor of Bursa, Mustafa Bozbey, who governs Turkey's fourth-largest city (population 3.2 million), was arrested on Tuesday along with members of his family, businesspeople, and employees of the city hall, which is controlled by the main opposition party, the Republican People's Party (CHP). This is the latest in a series of legal operations targeting the opposition's municipal power, which has led to the imprisonment of some twe…
Ekrem İmamoğlu, the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Mayor and presidential candidate who is currently imprisoned in Silivri, reacted to the detention of Bursa Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Mustafa Bozbey.
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