Istanbul’s embattled Ekrem Imamoglu vowed to fight on despite being suspended as mayor and jailed on Sunday, in developments that have sparked Turkey’s worst street unrest in more than a decade.
Addressing vast crowds of tens of thousands of protesters who gathered outside City Hall for a fifth straight evening, Imamoglu’s wife warned the authorities they would face a reckoning.
“He will defeat you!... you will lose!” Dilek Kaya Imamoglu shouted from the platform.
“The injustice Ekrem faced... it struck a chord with every conscience. Everyone found something of themselves and the injustices they faced in what was done to Ekrem,” she said.
Just four days after his arrest in a pre-dawn raid by hundreds of police, the powerful and popular opposition mayor was on Sunday stripped of his title…
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