Türkiye, Imamoglu from jail wins the primaries with 15 million votes. Nine journalists arrested | EUROtoday

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Ekrem Imamoglu, the mayor of Istanbul suspended from his capabilities, which was formally confirmed yesterday, was formally designated candidate for the presidential elections of 2028 by his occasion, the CHP. This was indicated by a spokesperson for the Republican People’s Party, the principle opposition power, which celebrated the primaries on Sunday 23 March. Imamoglu was the one candidate within the working and was voted by 15 million folks

All this after one other night time of protests in his help. Tens of hundreds of demonstrators took half within the completely different protests all through Turkey. The brokers used tear gasoline and rubber bullets. The chief of the opposition to Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on the day of affirmation of his arrests, mentioned that the accusations in opposition to him are politically motivated. “I will never fold,” he wrote on X earlier than being put into pre -trial detention.

Erdogan condemned the protest manifestations and accused the CHP of getting tried to “disturb the peace and polarize the people”. The crowd gathered close to the Town Hall of Istanbul within the late afternoon of Sunday 23 March for the fifth consecutive night time. The demonstrators waved Turkish flags and sung in entrance of a row of anti -Somamossa policemen.

The brokers had been seen to make use of hydrants in opposition to some demonstrators and pepper spray. Imamoglu’s spouse, Dilek Kaya Imamoglu, turned to the good crowd exterior the city corridor, telling the demonstrators that “the injustice” that her husband needed to face has “touched a sensitive rope in every consciousness”.

Nine journalists who adopted the protests in Istanbul for the arrest of the mayor Imamoglu had been positioned in custody throughout raised at daybreak of their houses by the police. This was reported by the union of Turkish journalists Disk Basin IS, in keeping with which the arrested are Our Tosun of the broadcaster now, the photojournalist Bulent Kilic, the journalist Zeynep Kuray, the reporter of AFP Yasin Akgul, the journalist Hayri Tunc, the photojournalist of the municipality of Istanbul Kurtulus Ari, the reporter of the Sendika portal, Zisan, Gur, the photojournalist Murat Kocabas, the journalist Gokhan Kam and Baris Ince of Birgun.