Turkiye opposition presses protests as Swedish reporter jailed

Turkiye’s opposition on Sunday worked to keep up the momentum of the protest movement triggered by the arrest of Istanbul’s mayor after a giant weekend rally, with a Swedish reporter the latest detained in a government crackdown.

The arrest on March 19 of Istanbul’s opposition mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, on corruption charges his supporters say are false, sparked the most significant anti-government protests in Turkiye in over a decade, in a major test for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.