{"id":45428,"date":"2025-03-28T16:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T13:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=45428"},"modified":"2025-03-28T16:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T13:54:09","slug":"turkiye-detains-lawyer-of-jailed-istanbul-mayor-main-opposition-party-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/28\/turkiye-detains-lawyer-of-jailed-istanbul-mayor-main-opposition-party-says\/","title":{"rendered":"T\u00fcrkiye Detains Lawyer of Jailed Istanbul Mayor, Main Opposition Party Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish authorities detained a lawyer for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan&#8217;s biggest political rival, jailed Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, an MP of the main opposition party, CHP, said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Imamoglu, a CHP member who leads Erdoguan in some polls, was jailed on Sunday pending trial for graft, provoking the largest anti-government protests in a decade, which led in turn to mass arrests nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>Mehmet Pehlivan, a lawyer who defended Imamoglu in the latest investigation, was detained &#8220;for fabricated reasons&#8221;, CHP MP Turan Taskin Ozer said in a post on X, without giving details.<\/p>\n<p>Imamoglu, who has been temporarily dismissed from his job because of the case, demanded the immediate release of his lawyer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As if the coup on democracy wasn&#8217;t enough, they can&#8217;t stand the victims of this coup defending themselves,&#8221; Imamoglu said on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish authorities detained a lawyer for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan&#8217;s biggest political rival, jailed Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, an MP of the main opposition party, CHP, said on Friday. Imamoglu, a CHP member who leads Erdoguan in some polls, was jailed on Sunday pending trial for graft, provoking the largest anti-government protests in a decade, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45430,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45428\/revisions\/45430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}