Istanbul: Opposition to Turkey on Sunday worked to maintain the pace of the protest movement from the arrest of the mayor of Istanbul after a lasting rally on Saturday, a Swedish reporter detained in the latest official crackdown.
On March 19, the arrest of Istanbul’s opposition Mayor Aerim Amoglo, his supporters, on corruption charges, say he gives birth to anti -government protests in Turkey over a decade in a decade, in a major test of president’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
After more than a week of night -time streets, the Republican People’s Party (CHP) of the Amogloo mobilized hundreds of thousands for a major rally in Istanbul on Saturday, demanding the release of Amoglovo, which is the best of a sixth of electric box in the box.
After marking the end of the month of Ramadan, Turkey has entered the public holidays several days, the opposition has pledged to maintain a protest movement by changing tactics in more focus incidents.
Ozgur Ozil, a former Pharmacist CHP party leader, who has stepped up the party’s central public flagship in Salvory Jail in Satanbul, announced on Saturday that every weekend every weekend would be different in the 81 provinces and different districts in Istanbul.
‘The power to beat it’
On Sunday, he now launched a campaign to release the suspension mayor’s domestic sea in East Turkey in this connection to release the suspension mayor’s domestic sea in this regard and submit a signature for a petition for the initial election.
“God is my witness that the crime of Akim Amoglo is a rival to Erdogan,” said Ozil.
He said, “The reason for putting Amloglo in jail is that he had defeated Mr Tayyip in the past,” he said, referring to how Amoglov defeated the ruling party candidates in the election for the mayor of Istanbul in 2019 and 2024, which was a post -Erdogan.
Ozil added, “And they (Amoglo) have the power and wisdom to defeat him (Erdogan) in the future.
The government has responded to the demonstrations with a crackdown that has upset NATO members’ allies and rights groups, in which dozens of young people are leaving behind bars, journalists have been detained, and foreign reporters have been deported or deported.
On Thursday, Swedish journalist Jokim Medin, who works for the newspaper, was arrested on his arrival in Turkey. The Turkish House said that they were being charged with allegations of terrorism and “insulting the president”.
His newspaper’s editor -in -chief, Andreas Gustavian, said the allegations were “ridiculous”. AFP That “practicing journalism should not be a crime”.
Turkish authorities have also deported BBC Broadcaster said journalist Mark Loon, who was covering the protests after holding for 17 hours on Wednesday, said he had “posed a threat to public discipline”.
AFP Photographer Yasin Akgol was arrested on Monday morning in a Dawn raid.
He was released on Thursday.
Interior Minister Ali Yarlaikia said Thursday that 1,879 people were detained in connection with the March 19 protests, out of which 260 remand was received on remand.
In a message to the authorities, Ozil said, “You cannot prosper with persecution, stop oppressing the young children of this country.”
Father Sunan Kihan said he would first spend a vacation without his 22 -year -old son Sunn Kin, who was sent to Selori jail after being arrested in a Istanbul protest.
“These children were born when this party was in power, and was flourished under this government,” he said. They are not happy with its ways and they are getting up. ” AFPSaying that he went to visit his son in jail on Friday and his health is good.
Erdogan has previously named the “Street Terror”. Authorities have used tear gas, pepper spray and rubber bullets to disperse the protesters.
The European Union’s expansion commissioner Marta Kos, which Turkey still wants to be formally involved, said the arrests and deportation of journalists have led to the “promises and democratic traditions of Turkey.”
He added, “Freedom of the Assembly is a fundamental right”, Turkish authorities have pledged their struggle to join the block.
