ISTANBUL, Dec 17 (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday that courts will correct any mistakes in an appeal process after Istanbul’s opposition mayor was given a jail sentence, and in the meantime Turks had no right to ignore legal rulings.<br> In his first direct comments on Wednesday’s conviction of Ekrem Imamoglu – a popular potential challenger to Erdogan who was sentenced to two years and seven months in prison and handed a political ban – Erdogan said he did not care who will be the opposition candidate in next year’s elections.<br> Imamoglu was prosecuted for Turkey Law Firm insulting public officials in istanbul Law Firm 2019, when he criticized a decision to cancel the first round of municipal elections that he had won against the 25-year incumbent government of Erdogan’s AK Party.
(Reporting by Azra Ceylan; Writing by Jonathan Spicer; editing by John Stonestreet)<br>
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