Protests at Istanbul University today after the diploma of Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu was revoked and an arrest was made this morning.



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by koulibali

34 comments

  1. Fair play to everyone in Turkey fighting for democracy. Stay strong 💪

  2. That’s a peanut compared to Serbia tbh. We need to get more people on the streets cause the military and police belong to him.. He put his supporters in military and police so that they obey him

  4. I wanted to share this in answer to some of the “why Turkey doesn’t do protests?” questions.

    Although this seems small compared to what should’ve been, you have to understand these people have been heavily opressed for the last dacade and they’ve only had hopes on ballot box for change. Our democracy isn’t functioning and small things like doing a simple protest might get used by Erdogan as fuel. It is that kind of a mess.

    It might not be big, but majority of Turkish people isn’t apathetic to what’s happening.

  5. Good on the students and everyone there. That police line didn’t last long against them.

  7. I got excited when Turkiye announced they’d like to join the EU but after this there shouldn’t even be a discussion. Strategic partners at best.

  8. Ataturk was a leader who could see today 100 years ago.

    **Atatürk’s Oration to the Turkish Youth**

    **THE SACRED GIFT I ENTRUST TO THE TURKISH YOUTH**

    Turkish Youth!

    Your first duty is forever to preserve and to defend the turkish Independence and the Turkish Republic.

    This is the very foundation of your existence and your future. This foundation is your most precious treasure. In the future, too, there may be malevolent people at home and abroad who will wish to deprive you of this treasure. If some day you are compelled to defend your independence and your republic, you must not tarry to weigh the possibilities and circumstances of the situation before taking up your duty. These possibilities and circumstances may turn out to be extremely unfavourable. The enemies conspiring against your independence and your republic, may have behind them a victory unprecedented in the annals of the world. It may be that, by violence and ruse, all the fortresses of your beloved fatherland may be captured, all its shipyards occupied, all its armies dispersed and every part of the country invaded. And sadder and graver than all these circumstances, those who hold power within the country may be in error, misguided and may even be traitors. Furthermore, they may indentify their personal interests with the political designs of the invaders. The country may be impoverished, ruined and exhausted.

    Youth of turkey’s future,

    Even in such circumstances it is your duty to save the Turkish Independence and Republic.

    You will find the strength you need in your noble blood.

    Gazi Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

    M. K. Atatürk
    From “The Speech”, October 20, 1927

  10. People have to fight own police and army. So disgusting !!!

  11. You can’t stop the people. The establishments and money have become so comfortable over the last few decades that they seem to have forgotten that.

    People cannot be infinitely gouged and oppressed. Eventually they will push back.

    Pay attention America, this is what you will have to do if you keep letting them harm you.

  12. Revoking a university diploma was just unhinged. Didn’t even know it could happen. Wtf Turkey

  13. Good. The actions of this government are exactly the kind of shit tactics that need to end in the world.

  14. I hear democrats in the US cheering for the police and the roadside damage.

  16. If the Turkish government wants EU membership that badly…they are going about it the wrong way.

  17. Now we know why Erdogan was so nice lately, telling russia to return Crimea etc

    helping ~~grandma~~ Tusk up the stairs was playbook propaganda move

    Just to soften the blow before acting like evil dictator he really is

  18. rare to see protestors pull through a barricade, cheers to ye

  19. Meanwhile, Dutch toilet paper De Telegraaf reported this morning ‘Istanbul mayor arrested in corruption probe: Dozens of riot police at his home’

    All you need to know about this paper, which was banned for a while after WWII for collaborating with the Nazis. It should have been banned permanently.

    [https://www.telegraaf.nl/nieuws/1051531888/burgemeester-istanbul-opgepakt-in-corruptieonderzoek-tientallen-oproeragenten-bij-zijn-huis](https://www.telegraaf.nl/nieuws/1051531888/burgemeester-istanbul-opgepakt-in-corruptieonderzoek-tientallen-oproeragenten-bij-zijn-huis)

  20. Istanbul is a city of such intelligent and caring people. They deserve a government that reflects them.

  22. “Some of you on the front line will be crushed and battered with riot shields, but that’s the sacrifice we in the back, are willing to make!”

    Heave, ho!

    But seriously folks, I’m happy to see citizens push back against tyranny

  23. It’s not even summer yet. This is going to be an interesting year. Heat tends to fray tempers and they’re already there.

  24. We in Serbia are with you, both our nations are sick with the same type of virus.

    In this regard, how do you say PUMPAJ/PUMP IT in Turkish?

  25. Fight against the oppression Turkish brothers and sisters! 🇷🇴🤝🇹🇷

    Stand by the words of Atatürk “One day my mortal body will turn to dust. But the Turkish Republic will last forever!”

  27. police that protects corruption or the government from it;s people should be punished severely, now we have cameras and AI, they can be identified and made clear to them they were traitors to their country and people.

  28. Erdogan cooking the elections again.

    More news at 20.00

  29. Don’t know the details here but 99% of the time the university students are on the right side so Godspeed.

  33. If Erdo’s police will act in the same pushover manner, the opposition will achieve victory in no time

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