Reuters. Protests in Ankara, with crowds demonstrating against the detention of Istanbul’s mayor, continued well into the night on Wednesday (March 19).
Several hundred chanted anti-government slogans, with police using pepper spray to disperse protesters when they tried to push their way through a police formation.
Scattered protests and gatherings also took place in other cities, including Izmir and Trabzon.
Turkey detained Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, the main rival of President Tayyip Erdogan, on charges of corruption and aiding a terrorist group in what the main opposition party on Wednesday called "a coup against our next president."
