Turkish opposition leader calls for weekly rallies and deeper economic boycott

Turkey’s anti-government protesters are weighing their options, amid calls by the main opposition leader for weekly rallies, a growing economic boycott and a groundswell of fired-up student demonstrators determined to stay on the streets. The leader of the Republican People’s Party (CHP), Özgür Özel, expanded a call to boycott goods and services from companies perceived as close to the president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, during a rally in support of the jailed Istanbul mayor, Ekrem İmamoğlu. Speaking to the hundreds of thousands of opposition supporters who filled a park in Istanbul over the weekend, Özel took aim at the Doğuş Group

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