ISTANBUL: Ekrem Imamoglu, the mayor of Istanbul and a leading opposition figure, was removed again from court on Wednesday, at the latest hearing in his trial for corruption, Turkish media said.
Television channel T24 said on X that the 55-year-old politician, considered to be the main opposition challenger to Turkey´s veteran President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, had been “expelled from the courtroom... for disrupting order and discipline”.
Imamoglu has been in custody since March last year and has been appearing at a prison court since March this year with 414 co-defendants, 59 of whom are also in detention.
