Un demonstrator carrying a pikachu costume prosecuted by the police. This scene filmed in Antalya, Turkey, Wednesday, March 26, turned viral on social networks. The man disguised as a Pokémon participated within the demonstrations of help after the arrest of the mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem Imamoglu, principal rival of Recep Tayyip Erdogan for the 2028 presidential election.
The photos of its Pikachu chase, barely eight seconds, rapidly toured social networks, combining hundreds of thousands of views on Facebook, Instagram and X, specifically. According to BFM, it has been considered greater than 11 million occasions.
Since then, Pikachu, the well-known electrical Pokémon, has turn out to be a logo of pro-Imamoglu manifestations, the place he’s often acclaimed by the group and photographed.
False movies generated with AI
In addition to the genuine movies of this Pokémon protester, photos generated due to synthetic intelligence instruments have circulated, specifically these of a false arrest by the police. Others didn’t hesitate to match it to the Marxist revolutionary and chief of the Cuban internationalist guerrilla warfare Che Guevera. “The great revolutionary Pikachu”, writes a consumer on X.
Since the arrest of the primary rival of Erdogan, Ekrem Imamoglu, on March 19, hundreds of individuals have descended within the streets to precise their indignation. They collect every night, general in peace, in main cities, regardless of gathering bans. The authorities, confronted with this wave of unprecedented protest since 2013, introduced on Thursday that they’ve arrested 1,879 folks since mid-March. Among them, 260 had been incarcerated or had been being incarcerated, whereas greater than 950 had been launched, together with nearly half underneath judicial supervision.
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