{"id":76708,"date":"2025-03-20T14:43:51","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T14:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/turkey-arrests-dozens-over-online-posts-after-erdogan-presidential-rival-detained-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T14:43:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T14:43:51","slug":"turkey-arrests-dozens-over-online-posts-after-erdogan-presidential-rival-detained-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/turkey-arrests-dozens-over-online-posts-after-erdogan-presidential-rival-detained-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey arrests dozens over online posts after Erdogan presidential rival detained | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities in Turkey have arrested dozens of people for &#8220;provocative&#8221; social media posts after the mayor of Istanbul Ekrem Imamoglu <!--more--> was detained on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Imamoglu was one of more than 100 people held on charges including corruption and aiding terrorist groups &#8211; a move that has sparked protests in Istanbul and the capital Ankara.<\/p>\n<p>A member of the secular Republican People&#8217;s Party, Imamoglu is a key rival of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and was set to be named a presidential candidate for the 2028 elections later this week.<\/p>\n<p>Critics say his arrest is a &#8220;coup&#8221; and are planning further demonstrations, despite Istanbul&#8217;s pro-Erdogan governor banning protests for four days.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>#Turkey #Istanbul #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities in Turkey have arrested dozens of people for &#8220;provocative&#8221; social media posts after the mayor of Istanbul Ekrem Imamoglu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}