Turkey: Mayor’s lawyer, prominent journalist among latest arrests

Prominent Turkish journalist Fatih Altaylı was arrested Sunday (June 22nd) over comments made in a video posted on his YouTube channel in which he allegedly threatened Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Altaylı’s arrest followed the June 19th arrest of Mehmet Pehlivan, lawyer of imprisoned Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu.