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In the middle of the protest: Demonstrant goes to his knees before police barriers
Love in times of protest: Hundreds of thousands take to the street in Turkey. There are also emotional scenes, show videos.
Turkey experiences stormy times. For a week, young people in particular have been protesting against the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for a week. The police are partly brutal against the demonstrators, with water cannons or pepper spray. But that apparently brings people together even more.
An emotional video from Istanbul viral now goes from the protests, which star-Verification checked the video. To see: two hooded people who are right in front of a police barrier. One of the two, kneeling, stretches a ring box towards the other person. Gesticulated, he points to both – and then gets up again to put the ring on his counterpart. Probably a marriage proposal in the middle of the amount of protest – and right in front of the eyes of the police officers who do not stir.
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It has been protested in Turkey for a week
The video directly at the Valens-Aquäduct touches many on social media. Several accounts share the video. Among them – many combative comments: “The revolution is for lovers”, “Even in the face of oppression, love to rise”, or the modified question: “Do you want to resist with me?”.
The country has been in turmoil since March 19. On this day, the popular opposition politician and Istanbul Mayor Ekrem IMAMOGLU was arrested and then discontinued. He is accused of corruption and terror. Since then, hundreds of thousands have been protesting the government, despite the applicable ban on demonstration.
Imamoglu is considered the most potentially promising challenger of Erdogan in the presidential election scheduled for 2028. It was set up as a candidate by the largest opposition party Chp. According to the opposition, he should sit in solitary confinement in the Silivri high-security prison near Istanbul and be in good shape. He denies all the allegations and accuses the government of wanting to politically want it to investigate.
Erdogan himself calls the protests a “violent movement” that was founded by the opposition. Media report mostly peaceful protests, but the police are partly brutal against young people. There are injured, but statistics do not publish the police. According to the Turkish Ministry of the Interior, around 1400 people were also arrested, including several journalists. A journalist of the British broadcaster BBC was even deported from Turkey after his arrest.
Students who are hit hard by the high inflation (almost 40 percent in February) and rising rents and rising rents often do not support the conservative cultural policy of Erdogans are currently not on the road.
Sources: Instagram, with information from the dpa news agency
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