Journalists have been arrested in their homes as part of a crackdown on the largest protests Turkey has seen in more than a decade, triggered by the arrest of president Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s main political rival.
Despite a ban on street gatherings in many cities, hundreds of thousands assembled to protest for a sixth consecutive night on Monday, after Istanbul’s mayor Ekrem Imamoglu was formally arrested and detained pending trial on corruption charges – which he denies.
