Reuters. Anti-government protesters and police clashed again in Istanbul on Monday night (March 24) after a Turkish court jailed the city's mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu, pending trial on corruption charges.
The decision to send Imamoglu to jail has inflamed the country's biggest protests in more than a decade and comes after the main opposition party, European leaders and tens of thousands of protesters criticised the actions against him as politicised and undemocratic.
Imamoglu is seen as President Tayyip Erdogan's main political rival.
Addressing hundreds of thousands of people in front of the Istanbul Municipality headquarters in Sarachane again, leader of main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Ozgur Ozel repeated a call to boycott media, brands, and stores he called pro-Erdogan, adding all charges against Imamoglu were baseless, unfounded and without evidence.
