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Protests erupt in Turkey: The "Me" Era will end, the "We" Era will begin!
2025-09-14 21:56:22 / BOTA
Tens of thousands of citizens protested on Sunday, September 14, in Ankara against a court process that could remove the leader of the main opposition party from office on Monday.
Footage from Ankara showed large crowds chanting for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's resignation, waving Turkish flags and opposition party banners.
The court is expected to decide on Monday whether to declare the 2023 congress of the Republican People's Party (CHP) invalid due to alleged procedural irregularities. The decision could reshape the party, shake financial markets and affect the timing of general elections scheduled for 2028. The court could also delay the announcement of the ruling.
During Sunday's rally, CHP leader Ozgur Ozel said the government was trying to stay in power by undermining democratic norms and suppressing political dissent, following opposition victories in local elections last year. He also called for early elections.
Turkish opposition vows to resist
“This issue is political. The accusations are slander. Our comrades are innocent. What is happening is a coup, a coup against the next president, against the next government. We will resist, we will resist, we will resist ,” Ozel said in his speech to the protesters.
The government insists the judiciary is independent and denies any political motive behind the trials. According to a Reuters analysis, more than 500 people have been arrested in Turkey over the past year, including 17 mayors in Istanbul and other cities governed by the CHP, as part of corruption investigations.
Hundreds of CHP members have been jailed awaiting trial as part of a wide-ranging investigation into corruption and links to terrorism, including Erdogan's main political rival, Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu.
Imamoglu's arrest in March sparked the country's biggest protests in a decade, with hundreds of thousands of people taking to the streets, causing a sharp drop in the Turkish lira and other financial assets in the country.
In a letter sent from prison and read at a rally in Ankara, Imamoglu wrote that the government is trying to influence the outcome of the upcoming elections by eliminating legitimate rivals. He also accused the government of undermining democracy through politically motivated judicial actions and efforts to suppress the opposition.
" The era of 'me' in this country will end, and the era of 'we' will begin. One person will lose, and everyone else will win ," Imamoglu wrote.
After reading the letter, the crowd erupted in applause and chanted " President Imamoglu ."
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