Despite the threats of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, 300,000 people in Istanbul took the street again on Friday. They participated in the protests for the arrested mayor of Istanbul Ekrem Imamoglu.
Because of the closures of the road and bridge closures, the demonstrators would have gathered at various locations in Istanbul, said the chairman of the Imamoglus Party CHP, Özgür Özel. “This is not a demonstration of the CHP, the people come here from all parties and have come to show solidarity with mayor Imamoglu and stand up for democracy.” President Erdogan wants to use the judiciary as a “weapon” against the mayor and the opposition politician.
She does not believe in the allegations, said a 56-year-old demonstrator. “There is no earlier man than him.” Imamoglu was arrested in his house on Wednesday after a raid. He is accused of corruption and blackmail, and it is also said that he is the leader of a “criminal organization”. Together with the politician, more than a hundred other people were arrested, including MPs and CHP members.
Here you can see a recording of the demonstration in Istanbul.
Explanation published
His statement was published on Friday. “I have not committed a crime, I decide the allegations. The investigation is aimed at defamation and incitement to crimes, they are without logic, legality and convincing,” says it. It is a “political intervention”. Turkey is not a free, democratic and honest constitutional state with a separation of powers. He fights for that. “It is the struggle for the existence of a new democratic and just system in our country.”
The police used rubber bullets
Since Wednesday, people in various cities in Türkiye have been demonstrating again and again. The police acted on Friday against the demonstrators with tear gas, pepper sprays and rubber floors. In the city of Izmir in western Türkiye, the officials also used water cannons. They wanted to remove the participants from another collection of the opposition.
Dozens of people were arrested. Erdogan spoke about “Street Terror”, which Turkey will not occur. The opposition uses the research as an excuse to collapse the streets in the “chaos”.
The bar room is accused of “terrorist propaganda”
The board of the Istanbul Bar Association was released for “Terrorist propaganda” and “Public Distribution of False Information”. He is a former MP of the Left Editor CHP. The Bar Association had previously called for an investigation into the death of two journalists from southeastern Türkiye. It is said that they were touched by a Turkish drone.
Source: Krone
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