{"id":14057,"date":"2025-05-31T21:00:56","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T21:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/31\/turkish-authorities-escalate-crackdown-on-opposition-run-istanbul-municipality\/"},"modified":"2025-05-31T21:00:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T21:00:56","slug":"turkish-authorities-escalate-crackdown-on-opposition-run-istanbul-municipality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/31\/turkish-authorities-escalate-crackdown-on-opposition-run-istanbul-municipality\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish authorities escalate crackdown on opposition-run Istanbul municipality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Turkish authorities escalated their crackdown on the opposition-run Istanbul municipality Saturday over alleged corruption charges, detaining 30 people.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Those held include a former MP of the main opposition Republican People\u2019s Party, or CHP, and the mayors of three CHP-run districts of Istanbul.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            State-run Anadolu Agency reported that the detentions were part of four separate corruption investigations involving the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Saturday\u2019s detentions are the fifth wave of a legal crackdown against the Istanbul administration since March 19, when Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu was arrested on corruption charges.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            The arrest of Imamoglu, who is seen as the most viable challenger to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan\u2019s 22-year rule, sparked widespread demonstrations calling for his release and an end to Turkey\u2019s democratic backsliding under Erdogan.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            The opposition and its supporters claim his arrest, and the subsequent arrest of dozens more from the CHP, are politically motivated.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            \u201cThis time the coup didn\u2019t come with boots and tanks, but with prosecutor\u2019s robes,\u201d said CHP chairman Ozgur Ozel on Saturday before a crowd of supporters in the northwestern city of Duzce.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            However, the government insists Turkey\u2019s judiciary is independent and free of political influence.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            The second crackdown on CHP-run municipalities and districts occurred in late April, and the third and fourth waves were in late May, resulting in dozens of detentions.    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish authorities escalated their crackdown on the opposition-run Istanbul municipality Saturday over alleged corruption charges, detaining 30 people. Those held include a former MP of the main opposition Republican People\u2019s Party, or CHP, and the mayors of three CHP-run districts of Istanbul. State-run Anadolu Agency reported that the detentions were part of four separate corruption [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}