Turkey moves to silence jailed Erdogan rival by blocking account on X1 day ago Share Save Orla Guerin Senior international correspondent Reporting from Istanbul Share SaveReuters Tens of thousands of people joined a protest on Wednesday night calling for Imamoglu to be freed from jailAccess to the social media account of Istanbul's jailed opposition mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu, has been blocked by the authorities in Turkey. Imamoglu, who is the main rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, can no longer send messages in Turkey to his 9.7 million followers on X. His social media feed has been his main tool for communicating with his supporters and keeping himself in the public eye. Imamoglu's Republican People's Party (CHP) - the main opposition party in Turkey - told the BBC that blocking his account was a continuation of "the coup attempt on 19 March", when he was arrested. Istanbul prosecutors are investigating a post on Imamoglu's account, on the basis that it may constitute an incitement to commit crime, according to the president's communications office.