Video | Protests Against Turkey’s Erdogan Intensify Over Istanbul Mayor’s Arrest

Hundreds of thousands of people rallied in Istanbul late Friday to protest the arrest of the city’s opposition mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu, defying a warning from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that Turkey would not tolerate “street terrorism”. It was the third straight night that demonstrators had rallied against the arrest of Imamoglu — Erdogan’s biggest political rival — in Turkey’s biggest street protests in more than a decade. Opposition leader Ozgur Ozel, head of the CHP which called the nationwide protests, told a vast crowd in front of Istanbul City Hall that “300,000 people” had joined the demonstration.