
The protest against the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu as part of a corruption investigation, in Istanbul, Turkiye, March 29, 2025. —Reuters
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Istanbul: On Sunday, the Turkish opposition worked to maintain the speed of the protest by emphasizing his release as well as his release, emphasizing his release as well as his release.
On March 19, the arrest of Istanbul’s opposition Mayor Aerim Amoglo, his supporters say he was wrong, saying that he was wrong, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan gives rise to anti -government protests in Turkey during a decade.
After more than a week of night -time streets, the Republican People’s Party (CHP) mobilized hundreds of thousands for a major rally in Istanbul on Saturday. He was seen as a candidate that he had the best opportunity to defeat Erdogan in the ballot box after a quarter century in almost a century in power, no hint of his desire to step before the elections by 2028. Turkey has been opposed to the public holidays for several days on the eve of Ramadan, opposed to change the strategy to further focus on the protest movement.
Ozgur Ozil, a former Pharmacist CHP party leader, who has stepped up as the party’s central public flagship in Salvory Jail in Satanbul, has launched a campaign to submit a signature for the release of Amoglo and request for a preliminary election.
“God is my witness that the crime of Akim Amoglo is a rival to Erdogan,” said Ozil.
On Saturday, Ozil announced that one of the 81 Turkish provinces will be held in different districts of Istanbul on each weekend and every Wednesday. “Those who think we will not be able to celebrate the holiday are very wrong! Because we will definitely find a way to live together!” Amoglo said in a message from his lawyers to the X -transferred jail.
The government has responded to the demonstration that has upset the NATO member’s allies and rights groups with the crackdown, in which dozens of young people are leaving behind bars, journalists have been detained and foreign reporters have been deported or deported.
On Sunday, Ozil later returned to Istanbul for dozens of other young people detained in Amoglo and Silveri Jail, pledging to “bring” the responsible. He vowed that “this country will be democratic like Germany. The adviser to Amoglovo, Maheer Pollat, who has been arrested in the same case, has been admitted to the hospital with a heart condition, his lawyer has been reported by the Commodist newspaper regarding Eric Erod.
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 chief editor -in -chief, Andreas Gustavian, described the allegations as “ridiculous” and told AFP that “practicing journalism should not be a crime”. Swedish Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Steningard told Public Radio that her case was a “absolute priority” and that she had pledged to expand it with her Turkish counterpart.
Turkish authorities have accused Medin of illegally participating in a demonstration of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in the Stockholm in January 2023, during which the puppet representing Erdogan was mocked.
But his wife Sophie Excel said: “The allegations are wrong, he is a journalist, and nothing.”
Interior Minister Ali Yarlaikia said Thursday that 1,879 people have been detained in connection with the March 19 protests, of which 260 have been remanded in the hearing of the case.