https://youtu.be/hUEX30EBbC0?si=kQyEwaDxAnLUYhK6

https://youtu.be/LF4_JWo4cVg?si=Homnc_qXcEUpQSRX

https://youtu.be/sOSSIhYHoBk?si=fN2IM_xGiHecvQIg

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accuses opposition politicians in Turkey of "disturbing the peace of our citizens with provocations" after a week of protests

"I believe that if [the opposition] has any respect left, they will be ashamed of the evil they have done to the country," he says

Unrest began on Wednesday when Istanbul's mayor Ekrem Imamoglu - an opponent of Erdogan - was detained on corruption charges

Imamoglu spent the night in jail on Sunday and says the charges are politically motivated, something Erdogan denies

Fresh crowds have now gathered in Istanbul for a sixth consecutive day of protests - watch live at the top of this page

Earlier, the Turkish government said 1,133 people had been arrested since the protests started

Turkey's presidential election is not scheduled until 2028 - Imamoglu was confirmed today as the Republican People's Party (CPH)'s candidate, after a symbolic primary vote

Well of course he'll "win" if he forcibly removes his only real opponent. Has the whole world gone bloody mad now? We seem to be rushing headlong back to the Dark Ages

Indeed it seems like a falling back to the middle ages and its autocrats everywhere, but the coming... enlightenment will be nuclear.

https://youtu.be/7Zp_Keh6TUQ?si=7G_PTLbFuukzXpXx
Who is jailed Turkish opposition leader Ekrem Imamoglu?
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/...ekrem-imamoglu
https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content...1742814661.png

No, not necessarily, but it will be digital. So bright that everybody is totally transparent.

Quite possibly :yep:

Another dictator spreads his wings. I've been asking lately - is the world going mad? All these despots in the ascendent, their people seemingly helpless to choose change because of a totalitarian boot on their necks. We've heard the Turkish opposition decrying the lack of a sympathetic response from the British Government - and now their inaction/appeasement bears its inevitable fruit: the BBC's Mark Lowen has been arrested and deported. It's almost beyond belief - but with the way the world id going now anything's possible

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/st...-of-mark-lowen

Turkeys only real value other than being a popular holiday destination is the fact it is a NATO member with a land border with Russia.

*ducks incoming*

After Ramadan Türkiye will be lit opposition is now on low because of Ramadan after this they will gear up.

Of course. Otherwise this is why i wonder how anyone could possibly spend holidays in Turkey.
Or in the US.

Moderate and charismatic, the mayor of Istanbul embodies for many Turks the hope of a political watershed after 22 years of AKP rule.

To keep up the pressure on Turkey’s government, the opposition is calling for other forms of protest, such as calls for strikes or boycotts of pro-Erdogan media or businesses reputed to be close to the government. Opposition leader Ozgur Ozel told a crowd gathered at Istanbul’s City Hall on Tuesday that the crackdown would only strengthen the protest movement. Caught up in the crackdown was Elon Musk’s X, with the social media platform announcing Wednesday it would challenge in Turkey’s highest court a government order to block over 100 user accounts critical of Erdogan’s regime.

https://www.france24.com/en/europe/2...umed-autocracy

Eid Saeed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YilJTrd_9B8

What's up with Turkey?
They are sick and tired of an autocrate ruinining their country and destroying all secularisation and social reforms of decades. And it seems they have the guts.
I wish them well.

Only thing is - Turkey has, although sometimes difficult, been a counterbalance to the Russkies. We can only hope that the new President (if there be one) gets a strong enough handle on things and wishes to be our friend

Edit:- Wouldn't it be something if they finally got their freedom on Thanksgiving Day? A long time until November though

Agreed :yep:

After four decades of armed conflict with the Turkish state, the Kurdish militant movement PKK announced this morning that it is disbanding itself. The PKK has ‘completed its historical mission’, the movement declared. ‘The activities carried out under the name PKK have formally ended.’ Last February then came a historic call. From prison, Öcalan asked Kurdish militants to lay down their arms. That call was repeated last week at a PKK party congress in northern Iraq. This morning, the end of the PKK was formally announced.

How the dismantling of the movement, including the destruction of PKK weapons should proceed is not immediately clear. Kurdish politicians hope the decision will pave the way for a new dialogue. Erdoğan's AK Party welcomes the dissolution, but it is unclear whether the Turkish government has made any concessions. It cannot be a one-sided deal. For instance, it must be agreed what happens to remaining fighters and the military leadership of the PKK, which is now entrenched in northern Iraq. It also remains to be seen whether Öcalan will be released. The PKK's statement says he should lead negotiations. For Kurds, Öcalan is extremely important, but in the rest of Turkey he is known as a terrorist leader. There, they would not accept his release.