A Turkish court sentenced Istanbul’s popular mayor, a political rival of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to more than two years in prison on the charge of “insulting public figures.”
ISTANBUL — A Turkish court on Wednesday sentenced Istanbul’s popular mayor, a political rival of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to more than two years in prison on the charge of “insulting public figures,” a verdict that underscored concerns that opposition figures will be prevented from fairly competing in upcoming elections.The mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu, will remain in office while the sentence is appealed to higher courts, his party said.
“Everything will be great in 2023,” he added. “Let Ankara hear, let Ankara who intervened in that court today, hear.”Imamoglu, 52, a member of the opposition Republican People’s Party, or CHP, rose to prominence in 2019 after defeating a candidate from Erdogan’s ruling party in the race for mayor of Istanbul — a political thunderbolt that handed the opposition control of Turkey’s largest city for the first time in decades.
that those “who canceled the March 31 elections are the fools,” in what prosecutors subsequently claimed was an insult directed at the state election board.Prosecutors had sought a sentence of four years in prison. The president’s critics have called Imamoglu’s prosecution a barely disguised attempt to prevent him from running next year. The government has repeatedly insisted that Turkish courts act independently.
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