NEW: Erdogan has banned protests in Turkey. He has threatened to arrest anyone attending one.
This is the people’s response.
Fighting for their democracy with another vast gathering in Istanbul tonight. #Turkey 🇹🇷
(🎥 Credit: Özgür Özel - Chairman, Republican People’s Party)
This is the people’s response.
Fighting for their democracy with another vast gathering in Istanbul tonight. #Turkey 🇹🇷
(🎥 Credit: Özgür Özel - Chairman, Republican People’s Party)
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In the capital, Ankara, water cannons are being used to break up protests.
Other footage is emerging showing riot police dragging & beating protestors.
(🎥 ITV)
#Turkey 🇹🇷
(🎥 Visegrad24)
Drücke die Daumen.
The bravery of the Turkish people tonight in the face of a brutal and violent crackdown is remarkable.
#TurkeyProtests
(📸 Eflaka Boğdan)
This is globally consequential.
A people facing down an authoritarian regime & a revolution loosening Erdogan’s grip on power.
Riot police are now using pepper spray & water cannons in Ankara 🇹🇷
(🎥 Sendika)
This was filmed by DW Turkey journalist, Serkan Ocac, before he himself was attacked.
#TurkeyProtests🇹🇷
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/01/trump-stands-by-while-erdogan-orders-attack-protesters/580093/
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/05/26/us/turkey-protesters-attack-video-analysis.html
They are making nothing better by doing this.
My solidarity with all the people of countries suffering this epidemy of totalitarism.
Popular opposition leader Ekrem İmamoğlu calls for mass protests as he is thrown in jail and booted out as Istanbul mayor.
https://www.politico.eu/article/turkey-jailed-tayyip-erdogan-mayor-immamoglu-jail-crackdown-nato-democracy/
https://youtu.be/SqIbveBhdgM?si=gyQEOPMaKkkWdEbZ
#ItsPitchforkTime
https://youtu.be/i_WOosevZRQ?si=OuZ7m_iG0pq6vpB4
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cq6yde479gdt
Food for thought as Trump keeps talking his fake tough guy shit.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1903177195461414934.html
An anthem for our times! 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦
https://youtu.be/1q82twrdr0U
We’re broken and not likely to be fixed for some time.
Americans will have to take to the streets and risk physical abuse, arrest and even death, to get “regime change”.
We are the Legion of Kemal Ataturk.
We already know they’re just itching to use it as an excuse for martial law 🥴🥴🥴
Peaceful protests are a benchmark of this country.
It won’t stop anyone in America so …
Serve WHO exactly?
In unvanquishable number —
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you
Ye are many — they are few.’
The camps themselves will doubtless use the Nazi blueprints, like every other aspect of this horrific regime.
Blame the protests on the opposition which the autocrat caused by trying to stifle the will of the people.......
You left too soon!
This is another matter but hopefully Erdogan will release the guy and step down.
https://armenianweekly.com/2017/05/16/breaking-pro-erdogan-group-attacks-peaceful-protesters-in-d-c/
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Trump and Poilievre both demean peaceful protesters.
Trump has sent ICE into universities and colleges, and they are detaining anyone who was involved with protests or 'suspected' of being involved... in other words, they're brown.
He calls them terrorists.
Also Georgia, Serbia, Hungary, & Turkey, not one of these has 'failed' they are still ongoing...