Turkey: New Crackdown on Opposition in Istanbul
  • 13/09/2025
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An Istanbul prosecutor on Saturday ordered the arrest of 48 members of the Bayrampasa municipality, an opposition-run district of the city, including the mayor, on charges of “corruption,” the state news agency Anadolu reported. Mayor Hasan Mutlu, a member of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP, social democratic), and ...

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