Dhaka, March 26 -- Seven journalists detained for covering the mass protests that have gripped Turkiye were granted conditional release on Tuesday as the nation braced for another day of unrest over the arrest of a top opposition figure.

Vast crowds have hit the streets daily since the March 19 move against Istanbul's popular opposition mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu, prompting nightly clashes with riot police that have spread across the country.

Imamoglu, 53, of the opposition CHP party, is widely seen as the only politician capable of defeating Turkiye's longtime leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the ballot box, but has now been stripped of his mayorship and jailed because of a graft and terror probe that his supporters denounce as a "political c...