The situation in Turkey is dire.
Essentially, the presidential candidate candidate Ekrem Imamoğlu, who is the only candidate who has a chance of winning aganist the 20 year long regime of Erdogan, has been detained for false charges a couple of days before his political party, CHP which is also the largest opposition party in Turkey, has elected their presidential candidate.
This is an active attempt at destroying democracy within the country and also makes it clear at last that Erdogan is a dictator who is ignoring the constitution.
National news channels are not reporting on the protests and side with the government, there is a heavy censorship. The internet has been slowed down to the point of being UNUSABLE without the use of a VPN.
The Taksim Square and ALL the roads going up to it, train, bus, main roads, are all closed off because it is an important and historical place of protest.
There are protests everywhere in the country, in all the major cities. University students are the leading people within these protests while CHP has stayed passive about the whole thing. For now, protests are not violent but people are persistent. Meanwhile, the police have begun using pepper spray and plastic bullets aganist the protestors!
Turkey has not seen a series of political protests this large in the past 12 years, ever since the Gezi Park Protests which you might remember if you have seen it in the news.
Please show your support online and relay this message to any turkish people you might know in your country.
Know this - Erdoğan is a dictator, his regime is a regime of terror, and these protests are NOT UNLAWFUL.
WHATEVER MEDIA MAY TELL YOU, ESPECİALLY THE POPULAR TURKISH MEDIA SUCH AS A HABER AND THE LIKE ARE LYING BECAUSE THEY ARE OWNED BY ERDOGAN.
Listen to turkish voices! 19th of March is a civil coup!
Mustafa Kemal'in Askerleriyiz!
