#MemberInterview: Kadri Gürsel on Istanbul´s mayoral re-election on June 23
(World News Austria)

The International Press Institute (IPI) talked with IPI Executive Board member and Turkey National Committee chair Kadri Gürsel following the re-run of Istanbul`s mayoral election on June 23, which was won by opposition candidate Ekrem Imamoglu - despite the AKP party`s near complete control over traditional media in Turkey. Gürsel was previously detained for 11 months for his journalistic work as part of the Cumhuriyet trial together with 17 defendant colleagues and sentenced to two years and six months in prison in April 2018 on the charges of `aiding a terrorist organization without being a member`. He was briefly jailed again on May 29 before being released on the same day to serve out...