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Erdogan dismisses as 'theatrics' criticism of Istanbul mayor detention
Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on March 20, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 24, 2026
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Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on March 20, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 24, 2026
Erdogan dismisses criticism of Istanbul mayor's detention as theatrics, accusing the opposition of deception and focusing on national priorities.
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday the main opposition party was seeking to cover up its own mistakes and deceive people with "theatrics", in his first comments on the detention of Istanbul's mayor.
"We have neither the time to waste on pointless debates nor stacks of money to recklessly throw around," Erdogan said in an address in Ankara, a day after Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, his main political rival, was detained.
The Republican People's Party's issues "are not the country's issues, but the issues of a handful of opportunists in their headquarters," he said. "We have no time to waste on the opposition's theatrics."
(Reporting by Canan Sevgili and Huseyin Hayatsever; Writing by Jonathan Spicer; Editing by Andrew Heavens)
The main topic is Erdogan's dismissal of criticism regarding the detention of Istanbul's mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu.
The article does not specify the reasons for the detention, focusing instead on Erdogan's response to the criticism.
Erdogan dismisses the opposition's criticism as theatrics and accuses them of trying to cover up their own mistakes.
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