More opposition mayors have been arrested in Turkey in an effort to fight corruption. But rights groups say the arrests are politically motivated and represent an escalation in President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s crackdown on dissent. Reporter Dorian Jones from our partners DW, Deutsche Welle, has the story from Istanbul.
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