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deeply concerned
CHP mayors of Adana, Antalya, and Adıyaman detained by police. I guess they're saving the Bs for tomorrow.
05.07.2025 07:19 — 👍 4 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 2
The X account of Istanbul’s Mayor and opposition presidential candidate Ekrem İmamoğlu has been withheld in Turkey right now. İmamoğlu seen as Erdogan's strongest rival for presidential elections, has been detained since March 23.
Disgraceful.
Two of Turkey’s top journalists Timur Soykan and Murat Ağırel have been detained this morning on what their papers say are false charges based on their work www.bbc.com/turkce/artic...
10.04.2025 09:09 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0In other reporting there were indications he was detained for taking part in protests in Sweden and for social media posts while he was there
02.04.2025 12:42 — 👍 2 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0CHP leader Özel announces that starting at the end of Ramadan tomorrow, they will be going door to door collecting signatures throughout Turkey demanding freedom for Ekrem İmamoğlu and early elections.
29.03.2025 12:43 — 👍 23 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
After a break in Turkish mass prostest, huge daytime demonstration held now at Maltepe in Istanbul. People there say at least hundreds of thousands of people came, ordinary folks as well as CHP. Other parties, such as pro-Kurdish DEM had also said they'd participate www.sozcu.com.tr/sarachane-ru...
29.03.2025 10:05 — 👍 14 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 0
Since protests broke out in Turkey, “police have arrested nearly 2,000 people, among them many students. With the system overwhelmed, family & friends are often left in the dark about where they're being held or when they'll get out,” @afpnews.bsky.social reports. uk.news.yahoo.com/no-news-fami...
29.03.2025 09:07 — 👍 11 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 0
Swedish journalist Joakim Madin was arrested and sent to Maltepe Prison!..
28.03.2025 18:55 — 👍 23 🔁 16 💬 5 📌 0
Turkey is no longer a hybrid regime. It is a fully authoritarian state racing in the direction of Egypt, Tunisia & Russia.
Last week, Erdogan locked up his top presidential opponent. Today he jailed his lawyer, too.
When opponents' lawyers are jailed, political rights are gone. 🧵
İmamoğlu's lawyer Mehmet Pehlivan was detained.
27.03.2025 22:40 — 👍 41 🔁 16 💬 2 📌 0Broadcasting speeches from the leader of Turkey's main opposition party now punishable with a broadcasting ban
27.03.2025 12:31 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Honored to share my new piece on İmamoğlu’s arrest and what it means for thinking about authoritarianism in Turkey and globally, in the best English-language news outlet covering the country, @turkeyrecap.bsky.social:
www.turkeyrecap.com/p/op-ed-the-...
The Deputy Mayor of Şişli, İstanbul, joins the Mayor in prison on terror charges
26.03.2025 14:09 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 1Erdoğan threatening everyone who's not happy with the system
26.03.2025 12:00 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Thousands in #İstanbul gather for a final protest in Saraçhane for the 7th night in a row. Since last week, people have been taking to the streets to protest against Erdogan.
CHP announced this evening would be the last protest in Saraçhane and they would be moving them to different locations.
As a boy, Berkay coined the phrase “Her şey çok güzel olacak” (everything will be beautiful) when he met İmamoğlu on the campaign trail in 2019. It’s still the slogan most closely associated with the mayor. Today Berkay, now a 22yo student, was sent to jail for protesting
25.03.2025 17:44 — 👍 7 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Domino effect meme starting "EspressoLab Boycott" and ending "Turkish Democracy Restored"
Fingers crossed
25.03.2025 15:09 — 👍 17 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0
CHP has called for protests outside Istanbul City Hall today for the last evening. Party leader Özgür Özel says protests will continue "in another form" somehow. I'm not aware of any other way than the boycott. Not sure CHP really has a plan on how to proceed from here. www.bbc.com/turkce/artic...
25.03.2025 14:52 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Further evidence that the repression Ankara has deployed to erase equal citizenship for Kurds in the southeast—like deposing elected mayors, making party leaders political prisoners & using military force against protesters—is now being expanded to stop Turkey’s top opposition party.
25.03.2025 08:22 — 👍 63 🔁 27 💬 0 📌 1The story from Erdoğan to Trump is “my opponent is very corrupt so he is going to prison, and a few college students are making noise but my police makes them behave.” Of course he likes the message.
25.03.2025 00:04 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1In the history of Twitter/X, it’s never been this easy for Erdogan to censor accounts at this rate and speed.
It’s as if he has direct backdoor access to do whatever he wants.
Monday, early morning hours in Istanbul: Police raids apartment buildings and detains citizens. That's because they "unlawfully" participated in the protests. Definitely an escalation!
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These things have happened in Turkey before but it’s been a long time since they happened at this scale
24.03.2025 00:23 — 👍 32 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 2What’s being done to İmamoğlu is very much a descendant of what was done to Demirtaş. The message then and now is if you start to become popular beyond your assigned demographic, you will be crushed.
The CHP at the time not only failed to support him, they were complicit in the plot against him.
İmamoğlu was not imprisoned on terror charges but only because he was already sent down for "corruption".
The AKP can still choose to shut down its biggest rival or appoint a puppet leadership for it (!)
This is really important given the strategy for Erdoğan has been to split the CHP and DEM popular front
23.03.2025 11:56 — 👍 25 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0DEM Party Co-Chair Bakırhan's statement on İmamoğlu:
"We stand with Mr. İmamoğlu and all the friends who were arrested with him"
"We will stand tallest against this civil coup"
Erdogan-controlled media accidentally reported the court’s ruling to arrest Imamoglu before the court had even made the ruling.
23.03.2025 10:58 — 👍 4 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0A very good illustration of why Yavaş would have been unacceptable as a candidate for Kurds in Turkey and why it was İmamoğlu and not Yavaş that they chose to jail.
23.03.2025 08:52 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0He is still questioned over terror charges, for about 14 hours now.
This is not new practice, but in the past it was the exclusive treatment for pro Kurdish politicians and it was often endorsed by CHP.
