Turkey Detains Three Mayors in Widening Probe, Anadolu Reports

Turkish police detained the mayors of three cities and a number of other officials, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported, in an escalation of a probe into municipalities governed by the opposition Republican People’s Party, or CHP.

Responding to the arrests, CHP leader Ozgur Ozel said Turkey had reached a “crossroads” in what he called “a struggle between democracy and autocracy” in the nation of over 85 million people.