‘THIS PROCESS HAS TURNED INTO A FORM OF TORTURE’: INSIDE THE TRIAL OF ERDOĞAN’S CHALLENGER

WHAT HAPPENED

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• The Guardian: He was elected mayor of Istanbul in 2019, and had announced his candidacy for the 2028 presidential elections.
• The Guardian: But Ekrem İmamoğlu is now behind bars, and his trial, on charges including fraud and organised crime, could take 12 years This piece first appeared in the Dial There’s a Turkish saying, “Silivri soğuktur”: Silivri is…
• The Guardian: You’ll hear it from journalists, politicians and activists after they say something critical of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s government.
• The Guardian: The kind of comments that could send them to the notorious prison complex in Silivri, where it would take months before they saw a judge.
• The Guardian: For decades, Silivri was considered a “sayfiye yeri”, a place for cottages, country and summer houses.

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