The continuing arrests appear to have several functions:
-serve the government's narrative that we are living through the biggest corruption affair in history, involving a veritable criminal organisation (see the leaked organisation chart in the pro-government media)
https://bsky.app/profile/cplaisant.bsky.social/post/3lpt7wvah3k2o
-serve the government's narrative that we are living through the biggest corruption affair in history, involving a veritable criminal organisation (see the leaked organisation chart in the pro-government media)
https://bsky.app/profile/cplaisant.bsky.social/post/3lpt7wvah3k2o
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Clément Plaisant
An illustration of how judicial repression works in Turkey? Although no indictment has been drawn up against the Mayor of Istanbul, the gendarmerie has concentrated all its efforts on building up the organisational chart of the 'criminal organisation’ to which Ekrem İmamoğlu is allegedly linked.
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-making Istanbul's metropolitan mayor's office dysfunctional. This is the main aim of the operation, after the objective of eliminating Erdogan's main rival, Imamoglu.