A Turkish court on Wednesday convicted Istanbul’s jailed opposition mayor and the chief rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of insulting and threatening a public official and sentenced him to a year and eight months in prison.

Ekrem İmamoğlu is already in pre-trial detention on separate charges against him, but has now been given an extra prison sentence. View on euronews

Turkish opposition figure Ekrem Imamoglu, the mayor of Istanbul, is already in pre-trial detention on separate charges, but has now been hit with an additional prison sentence.