Protests in Turkey
Police blocked headquarters of the opposition in Istanbul
The mood in the largest city in Türkiye is heated up. Followers of the leading opposition party Chp protest against reprisals. President Erdogan’s government does not want to tolerate this.
In the Turkish metropolis of Istanbul, supporters of the largest opposition party Chp demonstrated against the removal of the local party leadership. The police completely stopped the area around the party’s headquarters in the Sariyer district. Nevertheless, demonstrators gathered and tried to break the barricades, as the broadcaster Halk TV reported. The governor of Istanbul used by state chief Recep Tayyip Erdogan imposed a three -day ban on demonstration in several districts.
CHP boss Özgür Özel called the followers in a speech on Sunday evening to move to the party headquarters in Istanbul despite the blockade. “Anyone who defends the Republican People’s Party defends the republic,” he said.
Party leader Özel threatens the deposition
The CHP has been under pressure for months and sees itself as the victim of a politically motivated campaign of the government. The recent tensions were triggered by Tuesday: The court had deducted the entire top of the CHP in Istanbul due to alleged irregularities at the party congress two years ago and ordered the establishment of an administrator. With the protests, the CHP wants to prevent the administrator and his team from taking over the shops in the Istanbul provincial center on Monday. In a procedure on September 15, party leader Özel also threatens the deposition.
In March, the Mayor of Istanbul and Erdogan-Rival Ekrem Imamoglu, with reference to allegations of corruption and other reasons, was arrested and discontinued. This triggered nationwide protests – also because Imamoglu is the promising challenger of Erdogan in a future choice. The Turkish president is accused of fighting political competition with authoritarian methods and being subject to the country’s judiciary. Erdogan’s government rejects this criticism.
The opposition considers the procedure against the CHP to be politically motivated to weaken the opposition before future elections and prevent an imamoglus presidential candidacy. In the local elections in March last year, the CHP had a surprising success and won most of the mayoral offices in the country. Since then, numerous opposition mayors have been arrested.
dpa
Source: Stern
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