Ekrem Imamoglu, mayor of Istanbul and principal opponent of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was arrested on Wednesday, March 19. This time, he is accused of “corruption” and “terrorism”. The day before, his university degree had been canceled. Analysis of the situation with Dorothée Schmid, doctor of political science, head of the Türkiye/Middle East program at the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI).
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Türkiye: The arrest of Imamoglu is part “of a very large liberal anti-opposition operation”
