Nearly 200 people detained in a government crackdown on protests went on trial on Friday in Istanbul. Suspects include several students and journalists who were arrested while demonstrating against the March 19 detention and subsequent jailing of Ekrem Imamoglu, Istanbul’s mayor and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s greatest political rival.
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