Turkey’s main opposition political party protests the detention of its elected mayor

Mayor Özer was detained as part of an investigation by the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office, and was formally arrested after a two-hour hearing

Originally published on Global Voices

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Arrests and removals of democratically elected municipal officials in Turkey have been common since 2016. In the aftermath of the attempted military coup the same year, Turkey introduced an amendment to the existing law on municipalities...