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Turkey's Opposition Says Erdogan's Canal Plan Behind Latest Arrests

From his prison cell, jailed opposition mayor Imamoglu has denounced the latest arrests (Credit: AFP)

Prosecutors in Turkey announced dozens more arrests Saturday as part of an ongoing corruption probe, denounced by opposition leaders as a pretext to remove resistance to an ambitious Istanbul canal project.

The Istanbul general prosecutor's office said Saturday it had issued warrants for 53 people, 47 of whom had been detained, over a corruption probe into opposition mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, who was himself arrested last month.

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