Who is Ekrem Imamoglu & Why Has His Arrest Led to Protests in Turkiye? | Vantage with Palki Sharma | N18G
Turkey, or Turkiye, is seeing its biggest protests since 2013. They began last Wednesday, after the arrest of the mayor of Istanbul Ekrem Imamoglu. Imamoglu has been charged with corruption. But the protesters believe this is a ploy to remove him from politics. Imamoglu is considered the man most likely to defeat Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the country's next election. So, who is Ekrem Imamaglu, and how did he become the biggest threat to Erdogan's reign?
