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Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu’s sentence a direct attack on local democracy, says Congress President
Congress of Local and Regional Authorities
16 December 2022
Strasbourg
The President of the Council of Europe’s Congress of Local and Regional Authorities, Leendert Verbeek, has made the following statement concerning the prison sentence and political ban imposed on the Mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem İmamoğlu, by a Turkish court on 14 December: "I am extremely concerned...
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