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Osman Kavala has been in prison for 3,165 days. For the uninitiated, Kavala is a Turkish businessman and philanthropist who has been falsely and ridiculously accused of helping to engineer the attempted July 2016 coup in Turkey.
Ekrem Imamoglu has been in prison for 470 days. Turkish authorities accuse him of insulting Istanbul’s chief prosecutor, corruption, and espionage, but his real crime was being the most popular politician in Turkey and a compelling competitor to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Osman Kavala has been in prison for 3,165 days. For the uninitiated, Kavala is a Turkish businessman and philanthropist who has been falsely and ridiculously accused of helping to engineer the attempted July 2016 coup in Turkey.
Ekrem Imamoglu has been in prison for 470 days. Turkish authorities accuse him of insulting Istanbul’s chief prosecutor, corruption, and espionage, but his real crime was being the most popular politician in Turkey and a compelling competitor to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
