Urgent .. the largest million demonstration in Türkiye’s history to topple Erdogan
Istanbul died one of the biggest protests in modern Turkish history, where an estimated 2.5 million people came to the streets of the largest city in the country to express their dissatisfaction with the policies of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Imamoglu, who is widely seen as the main political competitor of the head of state, was honored. The demonstration, organized by the opposition Republican People’s Party, is described as the largest demonstration of popular anger in decades. On Sunday, the court ordered that the mayor be kept in detention pending trial, which added fuel for public anger. Hundreds of thousands of people on the waterfront of Malti on the Asian side of Istanbul on Saturday, and waved Turkish flags and chanted slogans calling for the overthrow of Erdogan. Before the 2028 elections, the number of participants was estimated at 2.2 million. In that, Istanbul has registered social media, as it has banned more than 700 accounts on the social networking site X, including journalists and politicians accounts. Erdogan described the demonstrations as & quot; violent & quot; The Republican People’s Party accused of inciting chaos, and pledged to prevent & quot; street terrorism & quot;. For its part, the Ministry of Justice insists on the independence of the judicial system and denies that the issue of Imamoglu has any political motives.
The protests in Istanbul reflected the deep crisis sweeping Turkey. Folding discontent with the government, which has been in power for more than 20 years. Imamoglu, who has won the municipal elections three times, is seen as a symbol of hope for change. His arrest, and the abolition of Istanbul University for his testimony the day before his arrest, sparked a wave of solidarity: about 15 million people, including 13 million non -members, participated in the symbolic vote of the Republican People’s Party in favor of his candidacy for the presidency.
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