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Monday, March 24, 2025
Jailed Erdogan rival named opposition candidate for Turkey’s 2028 presidential vote
Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu of the main center-left opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) receives official mandate to serve five more years in Istanbul on April 3, 2024. (Yasin Akgul/ AFP/ File)
ISTANBUL, Turkey — Istanbul’s embattled Ekrem Imamoglu is officially nominated as a presidential candidate by the opposition CHP party for the 2028 elections, a party spokesman tells AFP on Monday.
The Republican People’s Party (CHP) — the main opposition party and the second largest party in parliament — held a primary election on Sunday, at which the only candidate was Imamoglu, the main political rival of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Imamoglu was arrested, interrogated, jailed, and stripped of his mayorship in less than a week, following a graft and terror probe that the opposition has slammed as a political “coup.”
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