Turkey, Erdogan and Protests
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Protests that erupted across Turkey following the arrest of Istanbul’s opposition mayor took a new direction Wednesday as government opponents called for a one-day shopping boycott.
From The Associated Press
The boycott calls have been led by the opposition CHP's chairman Ozgur Ozel, who has encouraged the street protests that have swollen to the largest in Turkey in more than a decade.
From Yahoo
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President Erdogan is calculating he can ride out the upheaval caused by the arrest of his top rival, Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu.
Ekrem Imamoglu -- seen as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's biggest political rival -- said his lawyer Mehmet Pehlivan had been "detained on fictitious grounds", in a post on X published via his legal team.