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İmamoğlu ceremony: Turkish judiciary takes action against opposition

After the arrest of Ekrem Imamoğlu, a wave of protests goes through the country. The Turkish judiciary strikes hard.

The largest opposition party in Türkiye, CHP, condemned the mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem Imamoğlu, as “attempted coup against the next president”. Despite a four -day ban on assembly after the arrest, thousands of people in various cities such as Istanbul and the capital Ankara went onto the street and scandaled anti -government slogans.

After the arrest, the Turkish state also confiscated a construction company from İmamoğlu. This was announced by the Istanbul General Prosecutor’s Office in a statement on Wednesday evening. The court said that the court was taken over by a criminal court based on investigative reports on financial crime, the court, based on investigative reports on financial crime.

Turkish authorities arrested the most important political rival of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Wednesday. Among other things, İmamoğlu is accused of corruption and support for a terrorist group. İmamoğlu was arrested on Wednesday morning – a few days before his party was supposed to choose Chp as presidential candidate. Users also breathe their anger on the net.

The Turkish police are now also investigating several social media users. 37 people have already been “caught”, the Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya wrote on the platform X. A total of 261 account holders were determined for “provocative contributions”, 62 of them abroad. The remaining people are still going on.

For example, the users are accused of “impacting the public for hatred and hostility” and “incorporation to inspect a crime”. In total, more than 18 million contributions on X have been published on the topic by the morning, according to the Interior Minister.

In the meantime, social media were still only available to a limited extent. The cyberrecht activist Yaman Akdeniz, known in Turkey, wrote on X in the morning, the bandwid throttling of the platforms. Since Wednesday, users and media have reported only partially and barely accessible portals.