{"id":10914,"date":"2026-02-12T17:47:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T17:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/10914\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T17:47:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T17:47:11","slug":"chp-youth-branch-leader-arrested-over-post-criticizing-new-justice-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/10914\/","title":{"rendered":"CHP youth branch leader arrested over post criticizing new justice minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/stockholmcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Ramazan-Yildiz.jpg\" data-caption=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"435\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- alt=\"\" title=\"Ramazan Y\u0131ld\u0131z\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Ramazan-Yildiz-696x435.jpg\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"435\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Ramazan-Yildiz-696x435.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Ramazan Y\u0131ld\u0131z\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Turkish court on Thursday ordered the arrest of a local youth leader from the main opposition Republican People\u2019s Party (CHP) over a social media post criticizing recently appointed Justice Minister Ak\u0131n G\u00fcrlek.<\/p>\n<p>Ramazan Y\u0131ld\u0131z, head of the CHP youth branch in \u0130stanbul\u2019s Adalar district, was detained following an investigation launched by the \u0130stanbul Anadolu Chief Public Prosecutor\u2019s Office after he shared an Instagram post about G\u00fcrlek. According to the Birg\u00fcn daily, a criminal magistrate of the peace <a href=\"https:\/\/www.birgun.net\/haber\/chp-adalar-genclik-kollari-baskani-ramazan-yildiz-tutuklandi-692229\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ruled<\/a> for his arrest on charges of \u201ctargeting individuals involved in counterterrorism efforts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CHP \u0130stanbul provincial chairman \u00d6zg\u00fcr \u00c7elik <a href=\"https:\/\/bianet.org\/haber\/chp-adalar-genclik-kollari-baskani-tutuklandi-316635\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">condemned<\/a> the arrest, saying the government \u201coffers young people nothing but prisons and courtrooms.\u201d He added that Turkey was facing \u201ca system that seeks to suppress the opposition through the judiciary in order to prolong its exhausted rule.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The arrest came on the same day that Cem Ayd\u0131n, head of the party\u2019s youth wing, <a href=\"https:\/\/stockholmcf.org\/chp-youth-leader-gets-suspended-sentence-over-post-criticizing-prosecutor\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/stockholmcf.org\/chp-youth-leader-gets-suspended-sentence-over-post-criticizing-prosecutor\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">received<\/a> a suspended sentence of more than one year for insulting G\u00fcrlek during his tenure as \u0130stanbul chief public prosecutor.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate case Bilge Ka\u011fan \u015earbat, head of the CHP youth branch in \u0130stanbul\u2019s Kad\u0131k\u00f6y district, was previously arrested on charges of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan and was later <a href=\"https:\/\/stockholmcf.org\/opposition-youth-wing-leader-released-pending-trial-over-protest-slogans\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">released<\/a> pending trial.<\/p>\n<p>The CHP has faced a series of prosecutions criticized as politically motivated and the seizure of some of its municipalities through trustee appointments following its sweeping 2024 local election victory.<\/p>\n<p>The pressure on the CHP and its municipalities has intensified since the arrest of \u0130stanbul Mayor Ekrem \u0130mamo\u011flu, a senior member of the CHP considered to be the strongest political rival of President Erdo\u011fan. He was detained along with dozens of \u0130stanbul city officials and was named his party\u2019s presidential candidate in March for the next general election scheduled for 2028.<\/p>\n<p>\u0130mamo\u011flu is accused of running what prosecutors call a \u201ccriminal organization\u201d within the municipality. He has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/stockholmcf.org\/istanbul-mayor-says-indictment-seeking-to-jail-him-for-2430-years-is-built-on-lies\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">denied<\/a>\u00a0the accusations and says they are politically motivated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Turkish court on Thursday ordered the arrest of a local youth leader from the main opposition Republican&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[8581,2031,312,429,8601,430,131,132,155],"class_list":{"0":"post-10914","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-stockholm","8":"tag-akin-gurlek","9":"tag-crackdown-on-opposition","10":"tag-human-rights","11":"tag-oppression","12":"tag-ramazan-yildiz","13":"tag-republican-peoples-party-chp","14":"tag-stockholm","15":"tag-sweden","16":"tag-turkey"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}