
Hundreds of people took to the streets in northern Nicosia on Friday evening to protest against the arrest of Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu .
The protest was organised by the Cyprus branch of the CHP, the Turkish political party to which Imamoglu belongs, and comes as protests have spread across Turkey and further afield after Imamoglu was arrested on Wednesday morning.
Turkey’s opposition insists that Imamoglu was arrested on trumped-up