Turkey’s president hits out at protesters for ‘sinking the economy’

Protesters shout slogans during a protest (Francisco Seco/AP)

Turkey’s president accused the political opposition of “sinking the economy” during the country’s largest protests in more than a decade over the arrest of Istanbul’s mayor, the biggest challenger to Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s 22-year rule.

The party of mayor Ekrem Imamoglu has called for a boycott of companies that it says support Mr Erdogan’s government.