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3:12Now PlayingThousands of people have again defied a Turkish government ban on protests and taken to the streets after the leading rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was charged with corruption and jailed.
Ekrem Imamoglu, the mayor of Istanbul, is widely seen as the candidate most likely to defeat President Erdogan in a general election. He has denied the allegations and said they are politically motivated. "I will never bow," he wrote on X before he was remanded in custody.
His detention has sparked some of Turkey's largest protests in more than a decade. Erdogan has condemned the demonstrations and accused the opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) of trying to "disturb the peace and polarise our people".
Reeta Chakrabarti presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Emily Wither in Istanbul.
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