Turkish authorities have detained a lawyer for jailed Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, President Tayyip Erdogan’s biggest political rival, an MP of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) said on Friday.
Imamoglu, a CHP member who leads Erdogan in some polls, was jailed on Sunday pending trial on graft allegations, provoking the largest anti-government protests in a decade that led to mass arrests nationwide.
Mehmet Pehlivan, a lawyer who defended
