Police arrested Ekrem İmamoğlu, the mayor of Istanbul and a likely contender to unseat the country’s longtime president. Expecting an outcry, authorities blocked roads, stopped metro services and banned demonstrations for four days. As The World reports, demonstrators took to the streets anyway.
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