With his main rival in jail, Erdogan turns Turkey into an ‘assumed autocracy’

Faced with mass protests on a scale not seen in over a decade, the Turkish government has threatened more arrests and an extended ban on gatherings in Ankara. Turks have spilled on to the streets daily to denounce the imprisonment of Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, whose arrest signals the culmination of more than ten years of democratic regression in the country.