Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has claimed that protests over the jailing of Istanbul’s mayor had become a “movement of violence” and that the main opposition party would be held accountable for injured police officers and damage to property.
The detention last Wednesday of Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, Mr Erdoğan’s main political rival, has triggered the biggest street protests in Turkey in more than a decade.
A court jailed him yesterday, pending trial, on corruption charges that he denies.
Mr İmamoğlu’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), and its supporters, said the charges against him are politically motivated and undemocratic, which…