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Last week Istanbul's Mayor Ekrem ImamoÄŸlu was sentenced to two years seven months in jail and banned from taking part in politics. It’s not clear if his sentence will be ratified by two higher courts, but his crime was to call Turkey’s election officials ‘fools’ after the rerun 2019 mayoral elections, though many believe it has more to do with next year's presidential elections. ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Monitoring journalist Dilay Yalcin in Istanbul unpicks the story.

Meeting Thailand's leading transgender business mogul
Thai transgender businesswoman and transgender advocate Anne Jakkaphong Jakrajutatip has made history as the first trans woman owner of the Miss Universe Organisation. ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Thai’s Tossapol Chaisamritpol has interviewed her about her ambitions for the pageant, and her own life experiences.

Reporting and running
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Arabic reporter Murad Shishani is often on the road, covering stories from conflict in Gaza to presidential campaigns in Iowa. But wherever he is, he keeps his spirits and energy levels up by running. Murad shares some of those runs with us.

Brazil and K-culture
If you’re a fan of K-pop or K-dramas you’re not alone. Award-winning films like Parasite, bands like BTS, and Korean dramas like Squid Game are global successes, part of what’s been called Hallyu, or Korean Wave. It's a big wave in Brazil, and ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Brasil’s Shin Suzuki decided to take a closer look at the appeal of K-culture. We paired him with ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Korean’s Julie Yoonnyung Lee to fill in the South Korean side of the equation.

³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ 100: Triumph against the odds
Yetunde Olugbenga of ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Yoruba starts a new series of stories shared by journalists from our language services who’ve faced big challenges in their lives and careers. They have told their stories in schools in order to encourage and inspire the next generation, as a way of marking the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ centenary. Yetunde tells us how she overcame sexual harassment from a college lecturer.

(Photo: People gather at Saraçhane in support of Ekrem İmamoğlu who has been sentenced to prison. Credit :Hakan Akgun /dia image via Getty Images)