US EditionTurkey's opposition elects interim Istanbul mayor
- Istanbul's opposition-run municipal council elected CHP member Nuri Aslan as interim mayor on Wednesday with 177 votes, as reported by NTV, to run the city for the remainder of Ekrem Imamoglu's term.
- The election occurred amidst a months-long legal crackdown on the opposition and followed the jailing of Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, who faces graft charges that he and his supporters call politicized, and is a major political rival of President Tayyip Erdogan.
- Imamoglu's detention on Sunday triggered the largest anti-government demonstrations in Turkey in over a decade, with hundreds of thousands taking to the streets, leading to mass arrests, while the government denies influencing the judiciary.
- Following Imamoglu's detention, Turkish financial assets plunged, prompting the central bank to use reserves to support the lira, while President Erdogan dismissed the protests as a 'show' and warned of legal consequences, calling on the CHP to stop 'provoking' Turks.
- The election of an interim mayor is intended to prevent the government from appointing a trustee to run the municipality, a practice used in other cities, particularly in the mainly Kurdish southeast, while the CHP plans an extraordinary congress on April 6 to further safeguard against government intervention, with Ozgur Ozel calling for a mass rally in Istanbul to press for early elections.
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Turkish Opposition Maintains Istanbul City Hall and Calls for New Protests · Global Voices
The opposition retains the mayorship of Istanbul and Nuri Aslan is the new municipal head of the most important city in Turkey. This decision complies with the road map marked by E krem Imamoglu before his arrest and represents a commitment to continuity as Aslan exercised number two in the mayor’s office and is a person of total confidence of the politician accused of corruption crimes. The arrival of Aslan, 56-year-old engineer of Sivas and a …
Abolishing Ekrem İmamoğlu: Nuri Aslan becomes Interim OB of Istanbul – more than 100 arrests following protests against government
After participating in anti-Erdoğan demonstrations, several people were arrested in Turkey during raids. Meanwhile, the Istanbul City Parliament appointed a representative for the imprisoned OB İmamoğlu.
Opposition replaces imprisoned mayor
The board of Turkey's largest city, Istanbul, elected a new acting mayor on Wednesday. Nuri Aslan belongs to the opposition CHP party, just like his predecessor, Ekrem Imamoglu, who was suspended from office and detained on criminal charges that led to mass protests against President Erdogan.
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