Over 1,100 people, including journals, arrested in Turkey amid protests over anbul mayor’s arrest | World News
In a major crackdown the Turkish government, about 1,133 people, including journals, have been detained since the start of protests five days ago against the detention of anbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, reports claimed.
The detention of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s main political rival, Mayor Imamoglu last Wednesday, has triggered one of the largest protests across Turkey in a decade.
Mayor Imamoglu was jailed on Sunday after a court’s order in a corruption case, whose trial is pending and the mayor has denied all the charges leveled against him.
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University students shout slogans during a protest at Besiktas drict in anbul, Turkey, after anbul’s Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu was arrested and sent to prison. The poster reads in English and Turkish: “I don’t know about you but I’m feeling ‘revolution’ tonight!”. (AP Photo/Huseyin Aldemir)
According to The Guardian report, a journal was arrested Turkish authorities while covering the protests outside the anbul city hall, while nine others were detained the authorities in morning raids.
CHP’ye çökmüş bir avuç paragözün asırlık partiyi parmağında oynatması, “Gazi’nin emaneti” diyerek CHP’ye oy veren insanlarımızı da üzüyor.
Emin olun, samimi CHP’li vatandaşlarımız da İSKİ skandalından 32 yıl sonra aynı rezilliklere tekrar şahit olmayı içlerine sindiremiyor. pic.twitter.com/1D4UVCWoOe
— Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (@RTErdogan) March 22, 2025
It wasn’t immediately clear why the journals were detained Turkish authorities. As per Reuters, a staff photographer of news agency Agence France Presse (AFP) is among the detained journals.
Mayor Imamoglu’s party, Republican People’s Party (CHP) which is the main opposition, has been calling for protests against the decision of the court to arrest the mayor, and the CHP has alleged that the arrest is “politicised and undemocratic”.
According to President Erdogan’s ruling AK Party’s spokesperson Omer Celik, the call for protests the CHP is a way to cover-up the shortcomings of the opposition. Democratic protest is a (fundamental) right, but the language used the CHP is not the language of democratic protest,” Celik said.
As CHP held a primary election to name Mayor Imamoglu the presidential candidate, he was arrested the authorities and jailed pending a corruption trial. About 15 million votes were cast in favour of the mayor.Story continues below this ad
The Turkish interior miner, Ali Yerlikaya confirmed that 1,133 people have been detained in the past five days, and many of those detained were arrested for trespassing a ban on protests across anbul.
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