A Turkish opposition politician has been jailed after he was arrested on corruption charges.
Ekrem Imamoglu, the mayor of Istanbul and one of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan‘s main politically rivals, had been due to be formally nominated as the Republican People’s Party (CHP) 2028 presidential nominee in a vote on Sunday.
The arrest of Mr Imamoglu and more than 100 other people sparked some of the largest protests in Turkey for decades.
The demonstrations quickly turned violent with footage showing clashes between protestors and riot police before the crowd swarmed through the city after police overwhelmed by the scale of the demonstration.
Despite efforts from Erdogan’s government to ban the gatherings and the use of water cannons have failed to deter the protesters taken to the streets for five nights in a row.
On Sunday he was formally arrested and charged with ‘establishing and managing a criminal organisation, taking bribes, extortion, unlawfully recording personal data and…