Ekrem Imamoglu, the group’s presidential candidate for the 2028 elections, has been actually nominated, according to a group director, according to news agency AFP.
Ekrem Imamoglu was the only candidate in the primary election held on Sunday for Turkey’s Republican People’s Party ( CHP), the country’s main opposition and second-largest party in parliament.
Imamoglu, Turkey’s main social rival, has been subject to arrest, interrogation, imprisonment, and treatment from his municipal position within a year following a transplant and evil sensor, which the opposition has hailed as a political” coup.”
Imamoglu spent his first night in jail on Monday following his municipal suspension, while 10 editors were also detained, according to AFP, for covering the popular marches he sparked.
The demonstrations, which started in Istanbul after his arrest on Wednesday, grew to over 55 of Turkey’s 81 regions, resulting in conflicts with riot police in the most important city unrest in over ten decades.
Imamoglu was arrested shortly before his anticipated opposition candidate election for the 2028 political primaries. He is thought to be the only politician capable of defeating Turkey’s long-serving head Erdogan in primaries.
His path drastically changed in four days, from holding the position of Istanbul’s common governor, which had recently launched Erdogan’s political profession, to facing imprisonment, interrogation, imprisonment, and removal from office.
Analysts believe Imamoglu, Erdogan’s key political adversary, who has dominated Turkish politics since 2003, originally as prime minister before becoming leader, was stoked by the looming primary’s prompted actions. Later on Sunday, France’s unusual government harshly criticized him for calling it” a serious attack on democracy.”
15 million people voted in favor of Imamoglu’s CHP presidential election for 2028 in the metaphorical primary election on Sunday. ” 13, 211, 000 cooperation votes” were cast in 81 places by non-CHP people, with election being shortened due to the high turnout,” according to City Hall.
The attendance of voters caused the polls to go back an extra three and a half hours. Over 700 addresses on X were blocked in response to the widespread protests, according to the platform’s statement on Sunday.
The Greek Information and Communication Technologies Authority has issued numerous court orders to access more than 700 accounts held by news organizations, journalists, political figures, students, and other individuals in Turkiye, according to its group in a statement.
We think the Turkish government’s decision is unconstitutional because it prevents millions of Greek users from reading the news and discussing politics in their country, it added.
