AND prison The Istanbul Mayor of Ekrem Imamoglu, a prominent opposition character, launched the most significant street unrest in Turkiye in the years.
Just four days after the arrest of the raid of Practice involved in hundreds of police officers, Imamoglu was taken away from the mayor’s title on Sunday and transferred to Silivri prison on the peripheral of Istanbul.
His imprisonment stems from a court order that obliges his official arrest on charges of corruption. The court decided not to formalize the arrest in a separate investigation into “terrorism”. The Ministry of the Interior announced the suspension as mayor of Turkiya.
Government officials have rejected charges that legal proceedings against opposition figure is politically motivated and insisted that Turkiye’s courts act independently.
However, as the protests raged, the authorities requested the closure of hundreds of accounts on social media.
More than 700 accounts of X, including those belonging to “newspaper organizations, journalists, political figures, students and others within Turkiya,” was targeted, the X company said.
Describing the movement of the Government as “illegal”, X confirmed its commitment to defense of free speech through legal channels.
However, it is said that the US company has suspended several accounts, including some involved in the coordination of protests.
She took off a wide anger among citizens, many of whom supported Imamoglu in the last elections.
The police arranged rubber bullets and spraying of ferns during a confrontation with protesters in Istanbul, while the protesters in Ankara welcomed water cannons.
Despite the prohibition of protests in the three largest Turkiya cities and the strict warning of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan against “street terror”, the unrest expanded rapidly, reflecting deepening tension in the country.
