Jailed Istanbul mayor Imamoglu says his lawyer has been arrested

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Jailed Istanbul mayor Imamoglu says his lawyer has been arrested

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Turkey's main opposition party says that the lawyer of Recep Tayyip Erdogan's opponent has been detained. It comes along with the detention of two journalists in dawn raids as authorities crack down on dissent.

Istanbul’s jailed mayor said in a social media post on Friday that his lawyer had been detained and demanded his immediate release.

“My lawyer Mehmet Pehlivan was detained on fictitious grounds,” Imamoglu said in a post on X published via his legal team. “As if the coup against democracy was not enough, they cannot tolerate the victims defending themselves,” he wrote, adding: “Release my lawyer immediately.”

Two more Turkish journalists were also detained in dawn raids on their homes for covering the mass protests that have swept across the country, sparked by Imamoglu’s arrest on March 19, the Turkish Journalists’ Union (TGS) said in a post on X.

The union identified them as Nisa Sude Demirel, a reporter for the Evrenselnewspaper, and Elif Bayburt who works for the ETHA news agency.

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