Istanbul Mayor Convicted For Dissenting Comments
December 15 2022
Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu has been sentenced to prison and banned from holding elected political office for making dissenting remarks, reports Human Rights Watch (New York).
On Nov. 4, 2019, Imamoglu told media that "those who canceled the March 31 [2019 Istanbul mayoral] election are fools," in reference to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's attempt to overturn the 2019 mayoral vote, which Imamoglu won.
He subsequently won the “rerun” election on Jun. 23, 2019. His victory...
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