ISTANBUL: A Turkish court has issued another formal arrest order for Istanbul’s jailed mayor Ekrem Imamoglu on suspicion of “political espionage,” state-owned Anadolu news agency said on Monday, stepping up a long-running opposition crackdown. Imamoglu, a key rival of President Tayyip Erdogan, who has been in jail since March pending trial on separate corruption charges, received a fresh jail sentence in July for insulting and threatening the chief Istanbul prosecutor. Imamoglu denies all charges against him.

Al menos 16 personas han sido arrestadas en dos nuevas investigaciones contra Ekrem Imamoglu, principal rival del presidente Erdogan

Inhaftiert ist Ekrem Imamoglu bereits, nun wird auch noch wegen angeblicher Spionage gegen ihn ermittelt. Für die Anhänger des Erdogan-Rivalen, die vor dem Gericht protestieren,…