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Trial Opens For Students, Journalists Over Istanbul Protests

Students have played a key role in the protests that erupted after the Istanbul mayor's arrest on March 19 (Credit: AFP)

A trial of nearly 200 people, among them students and journalists, arrested over Turkey's biggest protests in more than a decade opened in Istanbul on Friday.

In the dock are 189 suspects who were rounded up in a government crackdown on the protests, which erupted following the March 19 detention and subsequent jailing of Istanbul's opposition mayor Ekrem Imamoglu.

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