Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan<\/a>. He is already being held over an investigation into alleged corruption.<\/p>\nHis arrest in March as part of that case triggered Turkey\u2019s worst street protests in more than a decade.<\/p>\n
Wednesday\u2019s hearing was held at Silivri court and prison complex on the western outskirts of Istanbul, where \u0130mamo\u011flu has been held since his arrest.<\/p>\n
He was jailed for a year, five months and 15 days for having insulted a civil servant, and two months and 15 days for threats, the court document showed.<\/p>\n
\u0130mamo\u011flu, who appeared in court, has denied all of the allegations. He says he has been targeted because of his plans to challenge Erdo\u011fan in the 2028 presidential elections.<\/p>\n
The prosecutor had initially called for \u0130mamo\u011flu to face up to seven years and four months behind bars, and to be banned from holding public office.<\/p>\n
That ban, which is imposed when a suspect gets a minimum two-year jail term, was not applied.<\/p>\n
\u0130mamo\u011flu was elected Istanbul mayor in 2019 and re-elected in 2024. He was arrested on 19 March in connection with a corruption investigation and allegations of links to terrorism.<\/p>\n
The string of charges against him could prevent him taking part in the 2028 presidential election.<\/p>\n
His arrest prompted demonstrations across the country in the worst unrest since the 2013 Gezi Park protests, which spread across Turkey and which police brutally suppressed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Istanbul\u2019s mayor and Turkey\u2019s leading opposition figure, Ekrem \u0130mamo\u011flu, has been given a 20-month prison sentence for insulting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-267394","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114864626355667789","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}