Turkish authorities have issued 47 arrest warrants for municipal officials and staff across Istanbul, whose mayor — the main political rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan — has been jailed since March, the state news agency Anadolu reported on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The warrants were based on “four separate corruption investigations centred on Istanbul”, Anadolu said, without revealing how many people were actually taken into custody, AFP reported.<\/p>\n
The March 19 arrest and jailing of Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu sparked the biggest street protests T\u00fcrkiye had seen in decades.<\/p>\n
Police had already detained nearly 70 people in subsequent raids linked to alleged corruption at Istanbul City Hall, including Imamoglu’s private secretary and his private protection officer.<\/p>\n
The latest warrants targeted a former opposition lawmaker and five mayors of Istanbul districts, according to Anadolu.<\/p>\n
The private television station Halk, seen as close to the opposition CHP party that Imamoglu belongs to, said that nine district mayors — out of a total of 39 — had now been arrested and were being kept in custody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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