Erdogan hardens repression and plunges the economy into turmoil – Liberation

Turkey does it like in autocracy. Five days after arrest, The mayor of Istanbul Ekrem Imamoglu has been formally incarcerated for « corruption » By the Turkish justice for and transferred in the afternoon of this Sunday, March 23, to Silivri prison, west of Istanbul. The accusation of « terrorism » of which he is the subject was however not retained by the justice system, thus allowing his political training, the republican party of the people (CHP), to keep his stranglehold on the town hall of Istanbul, which he will continue to govern by appointing a mayor to ensure interim.

On the same day of his transfer to prison, the CHP decided to maintain the primary provided within the party to designate its presidential candidate. The party called on all Turkish citizens to participate in the ballot and to vote for the imprisoned councilor. This is a symbolic and protesting election, so much Ekrem Imamoglu, in addition to its incarceration, can no longer legally present itself to a presidential election since the invalidation of its university diploma. In the afternoon of Sunday, the polling stations set up in Türkiye and even abroad by the People’s Republican Party attracted fifteen million voters. Tell participation