Protests in Turkey have surged again as discontent among the youth boils over due to long-standing authoritarian rule and widespread poverty. The arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu—notably a challenger to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan—highlights an unprecedented escalation of authoritarian actions. Political scientists indicate that these aggressive moves reflect a regime aware of its declining legitimacy and desperate to maintain power, illustrating a worrying trend of repression that extends beyond prior journalist and academic arrests.
What we are seeing today is the justified anger of the young generation, whose future has been ripped away from them... as a result of prolonged authoritarianism and persistent poverty.
What the regime is doing against Ekrem Imamoglu goes beyond anything we have seen before. There has been an unprecedented authoritarian escalation.
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