ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, a leading rival of Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan, will appear before a court on Friday for the first time since his high-profile arrest last month, over earlier accusations of insulting a prosecutor.
The hearing is to be held inside a courthouse-prison complex in Istanbul's Silivri district where Imamoglu is currently jailed. It centres on charges that he insulted and threatened the chief Istanbul prosecutor.
