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Timișoara mayor joins European peers in visit in support of arrested Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu

August 28, 2025

Timișoara mayor Dominic Fritz has traveled to Istanbul as part of a delegation of European mayors showing solidarity with the arrested mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu. The European delegation also includes the mayors of Barcelona, ​​Athens, Budapest, Sofia, Utrecht, and Zagreb.

The European mayors want to draw attention to “the political nature of the arrest of Ekrem İmamoğlu and the increasingly brutal repression of local governments in Turkey,” an announcement from...

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Timișoara mayor joins European peers in visit in support of arrested Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu

Timișoara mayor Dominic Fritz has traveled to Istanbul as part of a delegation of European mayors showing solidarity with the arrested mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu. The European delegation also includes the mayors of Barcelona, ​​Athens, Budapest, Sofia, Utrecht, and Zagreb. The European mayors want to draw attention to “the political nature of the arrest of Ekrem […]

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