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Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu has warned that the city's elderly were still widely using the city's public transport despite warnings to stay home amid the coronavirus outbreak.

He noted that the number of elderly people — aged above 60 — who use the megacity's metro and inner-city bus networks, indeed declined by 54 percent over the past two weeks.

Fearful of annoying the powerful President of Turkey, most Bosniak politicians in Bosnia have ignored the visit to Sarajevo of Istanbul's popular mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu.

Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu on Dec. 25 outlined 15 reasons to oppose the planned Kanal Istanbul project.

Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu said on Aug. 18 that the municipality will scrutinize the city's infrastructure after flash floods killed one person the previous day.

Ekrem Imamoglu (l) the newly elected Mayor of Istanbul, talks to members of the media with Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomaios (r), the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians, following their meeting in Istanbul, Thursday. Imamoglu of the Republican People's Party (CHP) won a decisive victory on June 23, his second in three months after authorities annulled an earlier vote.

On the night of June 23, moments after the first exit polls signaled Ekrem Imamoglu's electoral triumph in the controversial mayoral rerun, Istanbul went through a moment of rare release.

After Ekrem Imamoglu won the second mayoral election in Istanbul - with the help of the city's big Bosniak-origin community - he has become the face of popular opposition to Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

From the moment that he ordered the annulment of Ekrem Imamoglu's election as mayor of Istanbul, it was clear that Recep Tayyip Erdogan would stop at nothing to get his own candidate to win the repeat vote.

One of Turkey's immediate needs is justice, the leader of Turkey's main opposition party has said, calling on the election watchdog to finalize its month-long scrutiny of the Istanbul polls and confirm Ekrem İmamoğlu as mayor.

The world's largest "carpet" of live tulips was "rolled out" in Sultanahmet Square on Thursday, April 25, with an induction by new Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu.