(21 Mar 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMMARY:
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Istanbul – 21 March 2025
1. Various of students protesting and chanting UPSOUND (Turkish) “Tayyip, resign!”; “Jump, jump, if you don’t jump you’re Tayyip!” (referring to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan) “This is just the beginning, the struggle will continue”
2. Close of demonstrator holding poster reading (Turkish) “Resign so we can go home”
3. Various of students protesting and chanting UPSOUND (Turkish) “Rights, law, justice!”
STORYLINE:
Demonstrators took to the streets of Istanbul again on Friday to protest the arrest of the city’s popular mayor, which critics say was a politically motivated attack by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu – a rival of Erdogan’s – was arrested in a dawn raid on his residence on Wednesday, over alleged corruption and terror links, escalating a crackdown on opposition figures and dissenting voices.
Several other prominent figures, including two district mayors, were also detained.
The leader of Turkey’s main opposition on Friday renewed a call on supporters to take to the streets even as authorities widened a ban on protests and criticized the call as irresponsible.
Since Imamoglu’s arrest, thousands of people have gathered at Istanbul’s city hall for night-time rallies, and clashes have erupted between demonstrators and police in Istanbul, the capital, Ankara, and Turkey’s third largest city, Izmir.
Many view the arrest as a politically driven attempt to remove a popular opposition figure and key challenger to Erdogan from the next presidential race, currently scheduled for 2028.
Government officials reject claims that legal actions against opposition figures are politically motivated and insist that the courts operate independently.
AP video by Mehmet Guzel
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