The largest Turkish opposition party organizes gatherings, urging a company for managing businesses and standing from its presidential candidate and if they will have to campaign from prison.
At the universities, students formed the Council for directing the protests and spreading words, sharing tips for dealing with the police of clutter and tear gas. Their efforts – part of the largest wave of political protest in Turkey in more than a decade – catalyzed the Government on March 19th. The arrest of Ekrem ImamogluMayor of Istanbul and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan the best political rival.
They were greeted by equally huge measures of the Government of Mr. Erdogan to abolish them. But instead of corresponding to the opposition supporters, the attack seems to be cited.
“Everyone in the forums and meetings says it is only a we have,” said Irem Tacyiziz, 24, an economics student in the Middle East of the Technical University of the Ankara capital, who participated in protests. “The fire is already lit.”
But it remains unclear to what extent the moving protest movement can withstand his momentum and succeed in persuading or forcing the government to change the course.
The government removed Mr. Imamoglu from his place and closed it on Sunday Thursday trials on charges of corruption. On the same day, his political party chose him as his candidate in the next presidential election.
His university also canceled his diploma, citing irregular procedures more than three decades ago, which effectively blocked him from the presidential race because the candidates had to complete higher education.
Mr. Imamoglu denied allegations and vowed to fight them in court. The opposition called his arrest “a” national blow “aimed at blocking the challenge to Mr. Erdogan.
Turkey is an officially democratic republic, but foreign officials, experts and many Turks say that Mr. Erdogan has pushed the country towards autocracy in recent years and now wants to go on to strengthen your power. This means that the Turks who want to resist the Government must face the control of Mr. Erdogan over security forces and influence on newspaper media and courts, analysts say.
“The authoritarian side is getting stronger and with each step, an area for a fight in which the opposition can express its views and talk about injustice becomes rope,” said Seren Selvin Korkmaz, co-Director IstanpolThink Think based in Istanbul. “So the opposition should always find creative solutions to express their views on people.”
The news of Mr. Imamoglu’s arrest has led to great night protests in front of the Istanbul City Hall and in other Turkish cities. Police cleaned many by force.
Leading opposition is a Republican People’s Party or CHP to which Mr. Imamoglu belongs. Party of the respected Turkish founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, it advocates a firmly secular government and draws most of its support from larger, coastal cities.
His strongest face was his leader, Ozgur Ozel, a pharmacist and a legislator known for negotiations with members of the party’s ruling justice and development of Mr. Erdogan in Parliament. After the arrest of Mr. Imamoglu, he was in a room at a small bed in the city councilor to coordinate the party’s response, maintaining fire nights to protesters.
He called a boycott of the company associated with the preglidal news that is not air records of demonstration.
“The boycott is coming to anyone who neglects this square,” he shouted during the address Sunday, his voice hoarsely. “We will use the power of our consumption.”
In an interview on Friday, Gokhan Gunaydin, a senior party official, said he would do his best for the early presidential elections while trying to channel what he called the wider dissatisfaction with the Government of the “miserable anti -democratic pressure”.
The party was planning to hold Mr. Imamoglu, he said, even if it means that the prison has become his “Presidential Campaign Office.”
The party would fight charges against the mayor, his assistants and other officials and the dispute of his diploma, he said. He would encourage a boycott and organize regular gatherings to support Mr. Imamoglu around Istanbul and elsewhere in the country.
Many protesters are students who express anger that Mr. Erdogan led the country and worried about the restriction of civil rights.
Initially, students at her university were surprised by the sharp response of the police, said Mrs. Tacyildiz, an economics student. Thus, precautions were organized: gas masks, asthma and antacids medicines, which can be opposed to tear gas effects. The University Search and Rescue Club voluntarily helped if protesters were injured.
Many of her friends were arrested, and police patrol her campus in ordinary clothes and used unmanned aircraft to monitor the protest, she said. Some of the protesters wore masks to prevent the police from identifying them.
Students do not trust the courts and feel worried about where the country has moved, she said.
The government issued prohibitions of blankets for public demonstrations and closed transit hubs, and the rebels of the rebellion scattered protesters with water cannons, tear gas and pepper spray. More than 1800 people were arrested and about 260 prison to trial, according to the Ministry of the Interior.
To make the news, many owned by the Allies of Mr. Erdogan, have avoided live broadcasting of protests, at the same time dedicating a significant time of charges against Mr. Imamoglu.
On Thursday, the Parliamentary Committee that regulates newspaper media suspended the opposition of the SZC TV Emitter, 10 days after accusing him of “stimulating the public to hatred and hostility,” the website statement said.
Three other opposition channels were also fined for showing Mr. Ozel, the opposition party leader, criticizing the State Prosecutor who ordered the arrest of the mayor, and wrote the opposition member of the Committee on social networks.
Mr. Erdogan rejected the protesters as a violent vandal and accused the opposition of devastating on the streets to avoid confrontation with charges of corruption against his members.
On Thursday, justice Minister Yilmaz Tunc insisted on reporters that the courts were independent and criticized attempts to reject Mr. Imamoglu’s investigation as a political.
“This investigation is fully conducted by independent court bodies, and when the investigating authorities become aware of these allegations, it would be unthinkable of not opening the investigation,” he said.
He denied any connection between Mr. Imamoglu’s nomination that he was running for the president and his custody.
“This does not apply to his candidacy process or other events,” he said.
The next elections of Turkey are scheduled for 2028, but many Turks expect Parliament to invite the early elections where Mr. Erdogan, 71, could potentially run against Mr. Imamoglu, 54.
Osman Sert, Director PanoramatThe research institute in Ankara said that Mr. Imamoglu’s arrest “gathered around the flag effect”, which helped to unite the opposition.
Still, he said, faced a government with great strength to face the challenge.
“Turkey is still not in a position where democracy is already on hold and completely canceled. But these are, of course, the most difficult days for democracy,” he said. “These are the rules of the game and you can’t get out of it.”
