- The Turki shook road protests on the jelling of Istanbul Mayor.
- The internal minister says 123 police officers hurt the protest.
- Those detained include nine journalists.
Internal Minister Ali Yralikaya said on Monday that Turkish officials have detained 1,133 people in Turkey since the introduction of protests five days earlier against the detention of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu.
In custody of Imamoglu last Wednesday, the chief political rival of President Tayip Erdogan has triggered the biggest road protests in Türkiye in more than a decade. On Sunday, a court put him in jail, pending the case, on allegations of corruption that he refuses.
Despite the ban on road celebrations in many cities, most of the anti -peace government demonstrations continued till the fifth consecutive night on Sunday, with hundreds of thousands of people participating.
Yralikaya said that 123 police officers were so far injured during the protest, saying that the government would not allow “roads”.
Those detained include nine journalists who covered the protests overnight in several cities, the Turki Union of journalists said on Monday.
It was not immediately clear why journalists were taken into custody. An Egyptian France Press (AFP) employee photographer is one of the detained journalists, the Sangh said in a post on X.
Imamoglu’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has called for a protest against the court’s decision to arrest the Mayor, which they labeled as political and undemocratic.
Imamoglu has denied allegations that encounter them as “unimaginable allegations and condemnable” and have also called for nationwide protests.
Erdogan said last week that the government would not accept “disintegration of public system”. His government denies that the investigation is politically motivated and says that the courts are independent.
Earrdogan’s ruling AK party spokesperson Omar Celic said on Monday that the CHP call for protest was to meet the deficiencies of the opposition.
“Democratic protest is a (fundamental) right, but the language used by CHP is not the language of Democratic opposition,” said Cellic.
Without any reason
54 -year -old Imamoglu was prosecuted on Sunday as the CHP had a primary election to name him as the presidential candidate. Some 15 million votes were cast in support of the mayor.
The news of Imamoglu’s arrest covered the pages in front of Turkish newspapers on Monday, in which the opposition media suggested that the mayor was arrested for the most reliable challenge for Erdogan.
The supporters of the mayor said on Monday that Imamoglu’s geling demonstrated a lack of justice in the Turki.
22 -year -old construction activist Adam Bali said, “I think there is an injustice against Imamoglu. He put the man in jail without any reason.”
An unemployed Sigdem Talika, a 50 -year -old, said he believes that there was no justice in the Turki. “This system cannot continue in this way.”
In a demonstration of a protest in Sarchen district of Istanbul in front of the municipal building, CHP leader Ozgur Ozel said on Sunday that they would continue the protests until Imamoglu is released.
