It did not take long for online sleuths to find evidence of potential political bias in the prosecution of Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu.
The judge who sentenced the opposition politician to jail for just over two and a half years and banned him from politics on a charge of calling election officials “fools” is pictured on an Instagram post posing with officials of Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP).
