Jailed Istanbul mayor dares Erdogan to call early elections now

Almost one year after he was jailed, Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu has told Reuters that Tayyip Erdogan should call elections “now” and predicted that the president would lose if he ran again.

Imamoglu has emerged in recent years as Erdogan’s main rival, with polls suggesting he could indeed defeat Turkey’s leader of more than two decades if he is able to run.

But he has been the focus of a crackdown on the main opposition party that rights groups and foreign observers say...