Turkish Opposition Asks Erdogan If US Approved Rival’s Arrest
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Turkey’s opposition leader Ozgur Ozel on Sunday challenged President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to say whether he received approval from the Trump administration for the recent arrest of Erdogan’s main rival Ekrem Imamoglu.
Speaking in Ankara after his re-election as chairman of Imamoglu’s party, the Republican People’s Party, or CHP, Ozel labelled Erdogan’s administration as “a junta” and claimed it “got permission from across the ocean” for the arrest. Ozel urged the president to say whether the move “was authorized by America or not.”