Ekrem Imamoglu, rival of Turkish president Erdogan, faces a new criminal charge

People are gathered outdoors as far as the photo lens captures, in an apparent protest. In the foreground, a woman holds up a sign bearing the photo of a cleanshaven, bespectacled man.

Turkish prosecutors has charged Istanbul’s mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu, with falsifying his university diploma, a new case threatening more years in prison for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s main rival, already jailed pending corruption charges he denies.

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