“Masses of cops are in entrance of our doorways,” Ekrem Imamoglu mentioned in a video message to his supporters on March nineteenth, talking into his smartphone. “We’re up towards tyranny, however I can now not be discouraged.” The mayor of Istanbul, and the Turkish opposition’s anticipated candidate within the subsequent presidential elections, was once about to depart his condominium. Moments later he was once arrested. His birthday celebration is asking it an tried putsch through Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
