Istanbul’s ex-mayor İmamoğlu should reply in court docket | EUROtoday

In Turkey there have been once more protests towards the federal government this week. The demonstrators are calling for the discharge of CHP politician İmamoğlu. He has to reply twice in court docket right now.

The two processes towards Ekrem İmamoğlu don’t have anything to do together with his detention. An already ongoing process is about provide manipulation. As the mayor of the Istanbul district of Beylikdüzü, he’s stated to have commissioned unsuitable corporations within the 2010s.

The course of begin right now in one other process: İmamoğlu is claimed to have insulted the chief prosecutor Istanbuls, Akin Gürlek, and his household. In each procedures, a number of years of jail sentences and a political ban. İmamoğlu and his social gathering CHP reject the allegations.

“What we want is just democracy”

After an illustration break final week due to the Bayram holidays, the CHP recalled rallies – each weekend in one other metropolis, each Wednesday in Istanbul. In the Şişli district, greater than ten thousand folks demonstrated this Wednesday.

“We waited for it,” stated a younger demonstrator. “It is dangerous for protests that are not organized by the CHP. Many friends of mine have been arrested.” A younger girl stated: “We are here to bring justice back. What we want is simply democracy, because Turkey is becoming an autocracy.”

CHP boss requires perseverance

CHP social gathering chief Özgür Özel was confirmed with a big majority final weekend. In Şişli he stated the demonstrations had an impact on President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

“He is very frightened! But I would like to remind him again: We won’t stop until we make our Ekrem Mayor our presidential candidate,” stated Özel.

Erdoğan: CHP is embodiment of fascism

The CHP requires an early new elections and the discharge İmamoğlus, which it selected in absence because the presidential candidate.

Most just lately, the social gathering had additionally supported Boykott calls towards authorities corporations. The authorities was delicate – as President Erdoğan in his parliamentary group speech: “The understanding of the CHP of freedom only applies to itself and a handful of elites. The CHP is the embodiment of fascism in flesh and blood.”

Erdoğan additionally sued CHP boss Özel as a result of he described him as a head of a Junta. This assertion promptly repeated Özel in Şişli. Erdoğan is behind the arrest of İmamoğlus as a result of he was afraid of free elections.

Investigative journalists arrested

Meanwhile, journalists have been once more arrested in Istanbul. The investigative reporters Timur Soykan and Murat Ağırel had researched İmamoğlus and found authorized violations. The police arrested them at residence early within the morning, similar to college students that President Erdoğan had known as a dictator on posters.

In the night, about 100 younger demonstrators have been launched from the Silivri excessive -security jail. Almost 200 seats are nonetheless in custody, total accused of collaborating in prohibited demonstrations are greater than 800.

Large rally introduced in Samsun

Everything remained calm on the demo within the Istanbul district of Şişli. Chp boss Özel turned to the demonstrators: “There are dozens of books about how authoritarian leaders come into the world and what they do to the world and their countries. But there is only one book about how to get rid of them. And this book is written by you.”

A big rally within the metropolis of Samsun within the northeast of Türkiye has been introduced on the weekend.