ISTANBUL, March 28 — Hundreds of thousands of Turks protested in Istanbul on Saturday against the jailing of Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's main rival, sustaining the largest demonstrations Turkiye has seen in more than a decade.

ANKARA/ISTANBUL, March 25 — Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said yesterday that protests over the jailing of Istanbul's mayor had become a "movement of violence" and that the main opposition party would be held accountable for injured police officers and damage to property.

ISTANBUL, March 24 — A Turkish court yesterday jailed Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, President Tayyip Erdogan's main political rival, pending trial on corruption charges, in a move likely to inflame the country's biggest protests in more than a decade.

ANKARA, March 22 — Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu has denied terrorism charges brought against him, according to a court document seen by Reuters on Saturday, after he was detained by Turkiye on Wednesday for alleged corruption and terrorism.

ISTANBUL, March 22 — Protests against the detention of Istanbul's mayor grew on Friday and turned increasingly tense, Turkiye's biggest show of civil disobedience in more than a decade after President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan warned it would not be tolerated.