The newly elected mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem İmamoğlu, lamented the arrests and prosecution of journalists in Turkey yesterday during a meeting with the International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom.

İmamoğlu met with an IPI delegation comprising IPI Turkey National Committee Chair Kadri Gürsel, Committee Vice Chair Emre Kızılkaya, IPI Executive Director Barbara Trionfi, IPI Director of Advocacy Ravi R. Prasad, and IPI Press Freedom Programme Officer Renan Akyavas at his office in Istanbul on Tuesday to discuss support for independent journalism.