Explained: Turkey Tense As President’s Main Rival Jailed, Protests Flare Up

Istanbul: Turkey is witnessing the worst street unrest in more than a decade following the arrest of Istanbul’s embattled mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, a potential opposition candidate in the upcoming Turkish presidential election against incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Defying the ban on gatherings, tens of thousands of people took to the streets across cities around … Read more