Posted on 03/19/2025 8:41:06 AM PDT by Red Badger
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Ekrem Imamoglu, the mayor of Istanbul and a popular figure, had basked in the glow of what he often jokingly dubbed his political miracle — the only person to have beaten Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling party in not one, but three local elections.
On Wednesday, dozens of police officers raided his residence around dawn and detained him for questioning as part of investigations into alleged corruption and terror links.
Many see the arrest as part of a broader campaign to undermine the mayor and eliminate a key challenger to Erdogan before the next presidential elections. The move has raised concerns about the fairness of future elections under Erdogan who has grown increasingly authoritarian during his more than two-decade rule as prime minister and president.
It is also the latest in a string of crackdowns on opponents and dissenters in Turkey in recent years.
Who is Ekrem Imamoglu?
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Is he the Trump to Erdogan’s Biden/obama or the other way around? Which side was cheating or were both? Need play cards.
He’s the Anti-Erdogan................
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekrem_%C4%B0mamo%C4%9Flu
Not a fan of wiki... But lists him as a real estate developer and member of the Republican Party of Turkish.
Turkey needs a new president that is not a thug like the current one.
“On Wednesday, dozens of police officers raided his residence around dawn and detained him for questioning as part of investigations into alleged corruption and terror links.”
So that’s where Biden’s FBI went!
And it’s absolutely true, when you’re in power.
Next: Shot trying to escape, or suicide.
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