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The main rival to Turkish presidents of Recep Tayyip Erdogan was formally arrested and charged with corruption.

Ekrem Imamogu, Mayor Istanbul, was Therefore, he was chosen as the Republic National Parties (CHP) 2028 presidential nominated candidate in the Voting on Sunday.

He denied allegations and said they were politically motivated. “I’ll never worship,” he wrote on X before he was detained in custody.

His custody caused some of the largest protests in Turkey in more than decades. Erdogan condemned demonstrations and accused the CHP attempt “interferes with peace and polarize our people.”

Imamogu was one of more than 100 people, including other politicians, journalists and businessmen, detained as part of the investigation on Wednesday, started five consecutive night demonstrations.

Sunday was formally arrested and charged with “establishing and managing a criminal organization, taking bribes, extortion, unlawful recording of personal data and setting tenders”.

He was closed in custody regarding the trial. AFP and local media reported that he was taken to a prison in Silivrija.

IMAGLU also suspended from its weed as mayor, the Turkish Ministry of the Interior announced in the statement.

At social networking posts, IMAGLA criticized the arrest as a “black spot from our democracy” and said the court procedure was not monitored.

He called people across the country to join the protests and participate in Sunday voting.

The message is divided into X through its lawyers late Sunday, IMAglow sent its greetings to those protests and said that voters showed that Turkey is “sufficient” Erdogan.

The protests continued to continue the fifth nights on Sunday, despite the ban on gatherings.

The crowds caught up to the early evening near the city city hall in Istanbul and could see the Turkish flags and sing in front of a series of disorder.

The police officers saw shooting water cannons on some protesters and using spray peppers.

Imamogu was the only person who is in the choice of ChP’s presidential candidate.

The arrest does not prevent candidacy and elections in Imamagle as a president, but if he was convicted of any of the charges against him, he will not be able to run.

ImamogLu’s Chp party told almost 15 million people on Sunday threw the vote.

CHP said about that of his members came about 1.6 million votes, while the others were acting in non-separate ballot boxes for those who wanted to show solidarity with Imamog.

The BBC cannot check these figures independently.

The closed politician is considered one of the loudest rivals of Erdogan, which in Turkey held 22 years, as the Prime Minister and the President.

However, due to the terminal term, Erdogan cannot be restarted for the office in 2028. unless it changes the Constitution.

The opposition data says that the arrests are politically motivated.

But the Ministry of Justice criticized those linking Erdogan to arrests and insist on its independence of the judiciary.

On Sunday, X’s Office for government government said that he cuted out “multiple orders” from the Turkish communication controller to block over 700 accounts on the platform, including those Turkish political figures and journalists.

X said the move was “not only illegal, interferes with millions of Turkish users from news and political discourse in their country.”

Meanwhile, Istanbul University announced on Tuesday that the introduction of Imamaglu’s study was due to alleged irregularities.

If supported, this would be placed to run as a president in doubt, because the Turkish Constitution says that the presidents are that they must complete higher education for function maintenance.

Imamaglu’s lawyers said they would appeal to the decision on revocation of the Diploma and the European Court of Human Rights.

The Supreme Election Council will decide whether IMAGLU is qualified to be a candidate.

Prosecutors also want to charge Imamaglu with “helping the armed terrorist organization”, but the Turkish court said that it is not currently necessary.

CHP had de facto alliance with equality and democracy of pro-cultural people and democracy (DEM) regarding last year’s local elections.

Dem is accused of associated with the PKK – or the Kurdistan Workers Party – which denies.

The PKK declared a break of fire early this month, after violating the rebellion against Turkey for more than 40 years. It is underwater as a terrorist group in Turkey, the EU, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Thousands have been transported across Turkey in large peaceful demonstrations from the tongue on Wednesday.

More than 700 arrests were derived since the protests began, according to Turkish authorities.

On Saturday, one young woman is out of the mayor, dressed in black and carry a mask for the face, to the BBC not to protest for political reasons or because it supported the opposition, but instead to defend democracy.

“I’m here for justice, I’m here for freedom. We’re free people and Turkish people can’t accept this. This is against our behavior and culture.”

Another woman, who brought her 11-year-old son on protests, said she wanted to include him because she was worried about her future.

“It’s all harder to live in a desert in a day, we can’t control our lives, we can’t choose who we want and there is no right to justice,” she said.