'This is about injustice': crowds defy ban to protest over Istanbul mayor's detention

People gather at city hall and students march in anger after arrest of Ekrem İmamoğlu, a likely opposition candidate for presidency Outside Istanbul's city hall on Wednesday night a mass of protesters gathered in the freezing air to defy a city-wide ban on gatherings. A banner bearing a portrait of the Istanbul mayor, Ekrem İmamoğlu, giving a speech alongside the words "sovereignty belongs unconditionally to the nation" covered part of the facade of his now vacant office. In dawn raids that ...