A Turkish court has handed president Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s most formidable rival, and the sitting mayor of its biggest city, a 31-month prison sentence and a ban from politics.
Ekrem Imamoglu, a leading figure of the opposition People’s Republican Party (CHP) and a popular politician who consistently polls higher than Mr Erdogan, was convicted on a charge of insulting election officials during his contentious 2019 election campaign.
