Anti-riot police failed with demonstrators, including legislators, in the Istanbul branch of the Principal Party of the Opposition CHP of Turkey where an administrator appointed by the State entered Monday after its elected management was withdrawn.
During the confrontations, anti-riot police used tear gas to try to break the crowd of several hundred people who met late Sunday Sunday while thousands of police officers set up barricades around the provincial seat of Istanbul of the Republican People’s Party (CHP).
The demonstrators had hoped to prevent the administrator committed by the court from entering the building.
But Gursel Tekin, a former member of the Senior CHP, managed to make his way in the afternoon with the help of a riot police column, said an AFP correspondent on the scene.
We could see the police have at least a dozen people, said him and another correspondent.
The CHP, which won a huge victory over the AKP of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the local elections of 2024 and increased in the ballot boxes, underwent increasing pressure of a growing number of legal probes alleging the graft, which, according to criticism, are politically motivated.
The pressure started seriously in March with the imprisonment of the popular and powerful mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem Imamoglu, considered to be the only candidate with a realistic chance of beating Erdogan in the polls.
The decision of the court of last week ousted the head of Istanbul of the CHP, Ozgur Celik and his management team for reasons of alleged irregularities of the party congress which elected it, in a decision which plunged the stock market by 5.5%.
Analysts said that this decision was a “rehearsal” for a greater against the global direction of the CHP to try to share it as an opposition force.
An almost identical trial against the National Directorate of the CHP takes place in an Ankara court, the next hearing of which is on Monday.
If successful, he could cancel the party leader Ozgur Ozel.
– “non -existent justice” –
Apart from the building, several demonstrators – including none willing to use their complete names – expressed growing frustration but said they would never give up.
“Justice, the rights, the rule of law – none of this exists. Even deputies can not enter the building and the president of the province has been replaced by a trustee: it is against democracy,” said a 49 -year -old woman called Canan.
“But we will never give, never to university.”
Another called Huseyin said there was an increasing repression of freedom.
“Turkey is a country where freedoms are increasingly reduced, it becomes unlivable,” the 48 -year -old lawyer told AFP, saying that the existence of rules had become “meaningful”.
“It looks like our room to breathe is being restricted,” he said, while insisting that they would not give up.
“If we had lost hope, we would not be here.
Late Sunday, the governor of Istanbul, Davut Gul, slapped a large -scale ban on all demonstrations until Wednesday evening in six districts, claiming that any decision to prevent Tekin from taking responsibility “would lead to criminal accusations”.
The ban also prohibits the issuance of “press releases”, signature campaigns or the establishment of banners and posters related to the moving of the CHP.
Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya warned that the security forces act “resolutely” to prevent any disorder.
While the police created barricades on Sunday evening, access to social media platforms and messaging applications has been seriously limited, according to several Internet guard dogs such as the association of freedom of expression of Engelli and Turkey Ifod.
“Following the blocking of the provincial headquarters of the CHP Istanbul provincial headquarters, social media platforms and messaging applications whose bandwidth was strangled / slowed down from 2345 (2045 GMT) on September 7, Include X, Instagram, YouTube, Tiktok, Facebook, Whatsapp, Telegram and Signal”.
Residents of the Cihangir District could be heard to strike pots and pots on Sunday in a public sign against the CHP.
Tekin’s agreement to take the position of Istanbul sparked a deep anger within the CHP, which expelled it from the party accordingly, said Ozel.
The party also made a legal challenge to the decision.
He also filed a last -minute legal document transferring the address of the provincial headquarters of Istanbul to another 30 -kilometer building (19 miles) to the west, saying that the building that the trustee had just entered would be from now as the Ozel Istanbul office, said Birgun Newspaper.
