Turkey: Thousands on the streets to arrest Imoglou (images)

Thousands of Turks took to the streets today, defying the ban on demonstrations, to express their indignation at the “anti -democratic”, as they described it, the detention of the Mayor of Constantinople.

The barricades set up by the police were not capable of blocking the crowd, gathered in universities, squares and police stations

In the walk at Istanbul University, the student flood over the police barricade!

– Birgün Newspaper (@birgun_gazetesi)

Police used tear gas and tried to repel the protesters by shooting them with rubber bullets.

Students of University are holding a protest against the cancellation of their diploma and the detention of Mayor Ekrem . Police use pepper gas and rubber bullets against the protesters.

– Karina karapetyan (@karinakarapety8)

18.6 million posts in X – arrests were made

The Turkish authorities identified 261 social media accounts, including 62 from abroad, who made “provocative posts”, interior minister Ali Gerlikaya said in X.

As Reuters reports, some of them were arrested. According to Germany, less than 24 hours after the arrest of the Mayor of Constantinople, 18.6 million posts were made in X for Imamoglou.

‘He wanted to get him out of the game’

Erdogan’s 54 -year -old political opponent, was arrested on Wednesday, facing allegations of bribery and aid to a terrorist group (PKK), a move that the opposition condemned as a “attempted coup” and which caused a first round of European leaders.

In an interview, Ozgur Ozel, president of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) to which Imoglu belongs to, said that Erdogan was afraid that he would deal with the mayor in a vote and wanted to “play” him.

He said that any move that would prevent Imamoglou from nominating in the next election would boost the support of the opposition, adding that the CHP would set him a candidate on Sunday in the scheduled qualifiers.

“We believe that Imamoglu will win. If he is obstructed his candidacy, we believe that this will turn into much greater support, “Ozel told Reuters in his first interview with foreign media after detention.