Orientalist: Detention of Istanbul`s opposition mayor is Turkish president`s election ploy Thursday, March 20 2025 17:35
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![]() ArmInfo. The mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem Imamoglu, is the most likely rival of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, and his arrest yesterday fits in to the logic of the incumbent president's pre-election strategy. This was stated by Ruben Safrastyan, the chief researcher of the RA National Academy of Sciences and an orientalist, in a conversation with an ArmInfo correspondent,, in response to a request to assess the arrest of the opposition mayor of Istanbul and the protests that have ensued in the country as a result. |