Judicial officials in Turkey on Monday rejected an appeal seeking the release of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu from jail pending the outcome of his corruption trial, the country's state-run Anadolu Agency reported.
Imamoglu, a prominent opposition figure and a key challenger to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s more than two-decade rule, was detained on 19 March and formally jailed on corruption and terrorism charges four days later. That triggered the biggest protests in Turkey in more than a decade, with nearly 2,000 people detained for taking part.
