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The names of some squares and facilities were on the agenda at the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Assembly meeting. AKP members opposed the naming of a facility after former soccer player Metin Kurt on the grounds that he was a 'communist'. Yet the motion was voted through with a majority.

Interior Ministry inspectors are probing İmamoğlu because of "walking with his hands folded behind the back" at the tomb of Sultan Mehmed II and his visits to dismissed HDP mayors.