Hundreds of thousands join mass opposition protest in Istanbul • FRANCE 24 English

A mass rally organised by the main opposition party in Turkey, the Republican People’s Party (CHP), kicked off in Istanbul on Saturday. While student groups have maintained the momentum with smaller protests ever since city mayor Ekrem Imamoglu was arrested on March 19, this is the first major demonstration to take place since Tuesday. France24 Correspondent Jasper Mortimer reporting from Ankara.
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  2. Recep Tayyıp Erdoğan wins🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡

  5. i was there. I think there is a lot of MORE people than 2.2 million. Rallies like this raise our hopes that the dictatorship will fall and the people will reign again.

    Everything is gonna be OK. Love from Maltepe, İstanbul.

  10. Ths is nothing…if Mr Erdogan fans going on thestreets,it willbe at least 100 times more!!but it will escalade(thats that they want to create chaos!!!!)

    ImamYAN/imamOPOULOS will pay for what he did!!!and all western media will be ASHAMED!!!!!!

  11. BURSA SPEECH
    The Turkish Youth is the owner and guardian of the revolutions and the republic. He believes in their necessity and righteousness more than anyone else. He has adopted the regime and the revolutions. If he hears the slightest or the greatest movement and behavior that will weaken them! He will not say, "This country has a police, a gendarmerie, an army, a justice organization!"
    He will protect his own work with his hands, stones, sticks and guns; with whatever he has. The police will come, leave the real criminals behind and catch him as a criminal. The youth will think, "The police are not yet the police of the revolution and the republic." But he will never beg.
    The court will try him. He will think again, "so the justice organization must also be corrected, it must be organized according to the regime." They will put him in prison. Although he will object through legal channels, he will not send telegrams to me, the prime minister and the parliament, and will not ask for his release because he is innocent and unjust, and he will not want to be favored. He will say, "I did what my belief and conviction required. I am right in my intervention and action. If I have come here unjustly, it is my duty to correct the reasons and factors that have caused this injustice." This is the Turkish Youth and Turkish Youth as I understand It! 🇹🇷⚔️🇹🇷
    Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
    Bursa, February 5, 1933

  13. I HEARD IT FROM A VIDEO IN YOUTUBE: NOW, THE LAWYER OF IMAMOGLU IS ARRESTED, TOO! BECAUSE SHE SAID ON TV THAT IMAMOGLU IS INNOCENT! THERE IS NO EVIDENCE AGAINST HIM!

  24. Most TV channels in Türkiye do not show all this because there is incredible pressure. This is what democracy is all about.

  27. dictator erdogan we don't want you. Release the students! Don't touch the youth! Ekrem İmamoğlu is our President!

  29. @Mineesta  but 87 million supported erdogan and ready to die but you and imamoglu are agents of West who tray to back Turkey current achievement of erdogan. So 87 million wise muslim Turkey kiks and suppressed your evil action. You can go out to your masters (isreal or usa) and served them as gay.turkey never ever get wise leader like erdogan who transform Turkey from 0 to hero keeping its rellegion and culture &he is ledgend for other slave countries …

  32. Are they going to blame Europe and America for this. Come on, when people are tired, they mean it ,no matter what you do, enough is enough . I think turkey is not like saudi, where the leadership is for the family line . Yes or no?

  35. We are asking for your help, from the bottom of our hearts. The people of Turkey need your support. In addition, there are deep concerns regarding the erosion of democratic norms under Erdogan's leadership, and the potential negative impact on the stability of the European region. Please, stand with us.

  37. Know this very well: If it weren't for the support of Europe and the USA, Erdoğan couldn't have stayed in power for 23 years. Erdoğan is being supported by Western states to turn Turkey, a secular and democratic country, into a Middle Eastern country.

  40. 2, 3, 4 Million Protesters: Erdogan resign!
    Erdogan: No! I will arrest or shoot you. I have weapons….you not.

    And so what? I do not understand the sense of protests against a dictator.
    Same in Belarus.

    in one week the protesters get bored and erdogan can complete his dictatorship.

  44. Dictators are the most vile thieves… They steal your money, your freedom, your future and most importantly your hope… Democracy and rights are not wanted… They are taken by force through resistance and revolution…

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