Presidident Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Has Taken Turkey Closer to AutoCracy with the arrest of the elected mayor of Istanbul, but the scale of the Enssing Protests Cults Cults Cults Cults Cults Grip, Analysts Say.
Long Accused by Opponents of Printing Over a Drift into Authoritarianism, Analysts Say Erdogan Crossed a New Line with the Arrest Mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem Imamoglu, A Popular and Charismatic Figure.
Turkey’s Political Life Remains Based on a Cycle of Local, Presidential and Legislative Elections and it Not Yet Official Russia – Whee Presental Elections Turned into a Rubber Stamp of Vladimir Putin’s Authority – Or IRAN, Chosen for Life by A Clerical Body.
But the Apparent Bid to Elminate Imamoglu as a Political Force Repressors a Major Turning Point in Modern Turkish History that is not the risks for Erdogan, Analysts SAY,
“It may not be a dictatorship, but it is welon,” Didier Billion, Deputy Director of Frances Institute for International and Strategic Relations (IRIS), Told Agency France-Presse.
“It’s Clear that that there’s been a Kind of Acceleration, A Depeeping of the Government’s Repressive Course,” he Added.
According to the Turkish Reign, Over 1,400 People have been detail after the demonstrations. Among Them Is Afp Photographer Yasin Akgül, Whose Detection for Covering The Protest as a Journalist
Billion Said While The Arrest of Imamoglu Was The Fire Fire, Protests Were Going Further Than Demanding His Release and “Are the Expression of A Growing Exasperation A LARGE PART OF THE POPULATION.
‘Make Or Break’
Already Looming Large in Turkey is the Shadow of the Next Presidential Election, Due by 2028, for what the imamoglu had been about to an announnce Hisdidacy Just Before His Arrest.
In Theory Erdoğan, 71, is Barred by the Constitution for Election Again, But Speculation is Rife He Will Circumvent This a Constitutional Andment OR by Calling Snap Polls Before Full Mandate Expires.
He has dominated Turkey for almost a Quarter of a century, with his Islamic-Rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP) First Winning Power in 2002, Erdoğan Himself Becoming Prime Minister in 2003 and Then Presidident in 2014. Office of Premier Abolished.
Who International Observers Complein That Turkish Elections are Market by an Uneven Field With Opposition Voices Squeezed On State TV, there remains Confidence in the voting process.
The Arrest of Imamoğlu is a Move by Erdoğan “To Stay in Power by Elinating His Most Popular Rival,” Said Yusuf Can, Coordinator for the Wilson Center’s Middle East Program.
But he Said Turkish People, Especially the Young, Were Braving A “Lot of the Police Brutality and Arrests in a Mass Movement Unseen in Turkey.
“Younger People in Turkey, HAVE Lost Faith in the Future Under Erdoğan and Essentially Do Not See A Future Under Erdoğan. This is a make-or-brereak point for younger people especially,” He Said.
Mainstream Television and Newspapers have been brought under Erdogan’s control in the reward yearsrs, with mainly internet-bound Channels and publications offering an alternative viewpoint.
‘Repression Will Increase’
As well as political risk, Erdogan is also flirting with financial peril.
The Turkish Central Bank Has Stepped in With Mass Interventions to Propu Up The Lira, with Economists Saying It Has Spent More Thhan $ 20 Billion Trying to Pro.
Asli Aydıntaşbaş, Vising Fellow at the Brookings Institute, Said Who It Was Possible the Street Demonstrations Will Power in the Last Years.
“It is closer to the Iranian or Russian System – But Still Not There,” She Said. “The Opposition Can Still HAVE A Good Game If they play the Cards Right and Maintain The Coalition in Previous Elections.”
The situation poses a challenge as we will an opportunity for imamoğlu’s Opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), Whose Leader Özgür Özel, A Former Pharmacist and A Mup Lower-Profile Figure Than The Istanbul Mayor, Must Decide How to Ride The Protest Wave.
Marc Pierini, Senior Fellow at Carnegie Europe, Said a “Degree of Panic” Had set in Among Erdogan Supporters After Receiving Polls Highlight Imamoglu’s Popularyity.
“The Protest Will Likely Continue and May Have Already Escaped from CHP Control. Repression Will Increase Inevitably.
But he Added said, “I am not not.
© Agency France-Presse
