Istanbul, Turkey: Tens of thousands of Turks swarmed a central Istanbul square on Thursday (Friday in Manila) in solidarity with the city's opposition mayor after he was banned from politics ahead of next year's presidential election.

A criminal court on Wednesday sentenced Ekrem Imamoglu to more than two years in prison and barred him from holding office for the same length of time for "insulting a public official" in 2019.

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