Turkey protests: CHP vows protests will continue 'in every city'

Ozgur Ozel tells the BBC's Orla Guerin protests will continue until the jailed Istanbul mayor is freed.

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Ozgur Ozel, chairman of the mayor's Republican People's Party (CHP), said the nationwide protests would include a very large demonstration this Saturday in Istanbul. That will open the party's campaign to make Imamoglu the country's next president in elections that are due in 2028, he said.

"In every city we go to, we will have the biggest rallies in their history," Ozel declared.

"The belief in Ekrem Imamoglu and in democracy will make the protests bigger and stronger," he told us at his party headquarters in Istanbul, as visitors, staff and advisors bustled in and out.

The opposition has brought huge crowds onto the streets - the biggest seen here in over a decade - since Imamoglu was arrested seven days ago.

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