
Turkey’s government criticised a call from the main opposition leader for people to take to the streets to protest what they say is the undemocratic detention of Istanbul’s mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, as thousands demonstrated across the country.
President Tayyip Erdogan’s main political rival, Imamoglu, was taken in on Wednesday facing charges of graft and aiding a terrorist group, in a move the opposition condemned as a “coup attempt”. It has