Dozens of protesters who gathered to pay tribute to the twelfth anniversary of the uprising for Guez Park, which was a wide dispute of Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government in 2013, arrested in Constantinople last night.

“We have been notified that at least 87 people have been arrested,” the Association of Progressive Lawyers (ÇHD) said, adding that “barriers” were set up to prevent laws from being established.

No reports have been made public by the authorities, nor has any information been reported on the number of the official Anadolu news agency.

Through X, many young people simply said that they were “arrested”.

Once again, a large number of people were prevented from gaining access to the iconic Taxim Square, next to Guez Park and the heart of the anti -government mobilization was hit, as authorities excluded the area by placing fences in the morning.

The Constantinople subway station in the square was also closed, the French agency noticed.

Protesters gathered late in the afternoon on a street near the Beoglou district, holding banners that were citing slogans such as “Guez stays”, or “Taxim everywhere, resistance everywhere”, or slogans that called on mass mobilization analogous to that of Guezi, who had then shaken him.

The demonstration took place two and a half months after the wave of mobilizations triggered by the arrest and detention of Constantinople’s opposition mayor Ekrem Imamoglou on March 19, now accused of “corruption”.

The elected official, considered President Erdogan’s main opponent, rejects the accusations. He is held on March 25th in the Grand Silivri prison (Silivria), west of Constantinople, along with dozens of his associates.

Almost fifty new arrest warrants against the mayors of Constantinople and the Adana communities of the Adana who are in the opposition or their associates were issued yesterday and at least 28 of the people who were arrested were arrested by police early in the morning.