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Katarina Barley, Vice President of the European Parliament, was among the delegation that visited the jailed politician in Istanbul's Silivri prison.

Protesters were to join a mass rally in Istanbul Saturday at the call of Turkey's main opposition CHP over the jailing of the city's mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, a top figure in the party whose arrest has sparked 10 days of the country's biggest street demonstrations in a decade.

With the jailing of Istanbul's mayor on corruption charges, Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan has got rid of his most powerful opponent.

The mass demonstrations broke out last week following the arrest of Istanbul's mayor, Ekrem İmamoğlu, a member of the opposition CHP and seen as a key rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

Turkey on Thursday stepped up a crackdown on media coverage of mass protests since the arrest of Istanbul's popular mayor, deporting a BBC journalist and imposing a 10-day broadcast ban on an opposition TV channel.

Tensions flared anew in Turkey's capital, Ankara, as police clashed with student protesters early Thursday, deploying pepper spray, plastic pellets, and water cannons.

Editorial: The arrest of Istanbul’s mayor, Ekrem İmamoğlu, was a turning point for those already angered at political repression and a cost of living crisis

Many consider the case against Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, seen as the biggest challenger to Erdoğan’s 22-year rule, to be politically motivated.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has taken Turkey closer to autocracy with the arrest of the elected mayor of Istanbul, but the scale of the ensuing protests could yet shake his grip, analysts say.

Turkey’s president has accused the political opposition of “sinking the economy” during the country’s largest protests in more than a decade

Protesters were defiant Wednesday despite a growing crackdown and nearly 1,500 arrests as they marked a week since the start of Turkey's biggest street demonstrations since 2013.