World of all ages, young people with modern ambition, families with children in trolleys, older people participated in the magnificent gathering
Hundreds of thousands of Turkish citizens gathered in the suburb of Maltepe on the Asian side of Constantinople, responding to the call of the Republican People’s Party (CHP), in order to protest the arrest of the mayor of Constantinople.
It was the first major rally after the rallies in front of the Town Hall, the first days after its collection and his detention in Silibria prisons.
We have left concern, fear and fatigue at home. We are on the streets, we are in the squares, “said Ozgur Ozel, leader of the CHP party, at a gathering with the slogan” Freedom for Imamoglou “in the Maltepe district of Constantinople.
According to the president of the Republican People’s Party, 2.2 million people raised. This number, however, is rather excessive.
“This was the first and most serious attempt of someone who wants to marginalize democracy and keep his place by the end of the year,” Ozel said, referring to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. “We will beat them. We will never deliver this beautiful country to them. ”
Ozel promised to continue the demonstrations every weekend in a different city and every Wednesday in a district of Istanbul, signaling that the opposition party does not intend to easily abandon the issue of Imamoglou’s arrest and seeing the demonstrations as a way.
He also repeated his party’s request for early elections.
Ankara Mayor Mansour Yavas, who was also a speaker, spoke of hundreds of thousands of concentrated.
The security measures were strict, the gathering area was fenced with iron railings, and police were checking on citizens who were entering the site.
The protesters shouted slogans such as “justice”, “government resign,” all together or no one “, while opposition parties sent representatives.
The “present” was given to the rally by the wife, son and parents of Imoglou. His wife, Dilek Imamoglou, was even a speaker.
“When there are no jobs and justice, young people and investors are leaving,” Ankara Mayor Mansour Yavas said in a speech before Ozel’s speech. He called for the release of Imamoglou, other imprisoned officials and the young people arrested in recent repression.
CHP President Ozgur Ozel has spoken of a democratic revolution and officially announced that the party’s candidate for the presidential election – whatever they do – will be Ekrem Imamoglu, who received 15.5 million votes in the inlet.
He also conveyed Imoglou’s message that he wishes to broadcast on state television his trial. He once again referred to a judicial coup and said: “We left concern, fear and fatigue at home. We are on the streets, in the squares.”
Addressing President Erdogan and the ban on rallies, he said: “Look, you said” ban “, but millions are gathered every night. You banned the ballot box, 15.5 million people have come together.
Finally, he asked citizens to boycott on companies whose owners support the government, even listing their trademarks.
In a message broadcast at the gathering and reproduced with his voice through artificial intelligence, Imoglu said: “I will keep my promise, I will never go back.”
In an article published Friday in the New York Times, Imamoglu described the recent events “more than the gradual erosion” of the Turkish Republic, but “deliberate degradation of the institutional foundations of our democracy”.
Source :Skai
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