Thousands of people gathered outside Istanbul City Hall Wednesday to mark one year since the arrest of the city's mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu in a graft probe widely seen as a politically motivated act against the key opponent of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.Â
Waving Turkish flags, crowds including university students chanted "President Imamoglu", in a show of support for the opposition CHP's candidate for the next presidential vote.Â
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