The mayor is one of 100 people being investigated on corruption charges
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Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (left) and Istanbul's Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu.
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (left) and Istanbul's Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu.
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An Istanbul court on Sunday formally placed the city's opposition mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu, under arrest in a graft probe, four days after his detention sparked Turkey's worst unrest in over a decade, one of his lawyers told AFP.
The mayor is one of 100 people being investigated on corruption charges, and is also being probed in a second case on "terror-related" allegations, with the court due to rule on that in the coming hours.
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