
Access to the X account of jailed Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, President Tayyip Erdogan’s main political rival, has been blocked in Turkey in response to a legal demand, a message on his social media account said on Thursday.
Police detained Imamoglu on March 19, triggering Turkey’s largest protests in a decade. He was jailed four days later pending trial on corruption charges that he denies. Opposition parties called his arrest