Posted on 07/09/2017 7:52:50 PM PDT by Texas Fossil
Turkey's main opposition leader told a huge protest rally on Sunday that the country was living under dictatorship and pledged to keep challenging the crackdown launched by the authorities after last year's failed military coup.
Addressing hundreds of thousands of people waving Turkish flags and banners demanding justice, Kemal Kilicdaroglu said his 25-day march from Ankara to Istanbul - culminating in Sunday's rally in Istanbul - was the first stage of a long campaign.
"We will be breaking down the walls of fear," he told the crowd who gathered to welcome him at the end of his 425 km (265 mile) trek from the Turkish capital.
Kilicdaroglu's protest march drew only modest support in its early days, but as more people joined him it grew into the biggest protest yet against the year-long, post-coup crackdown launched by President Tayyip Erdogan's ruling AK Party.
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Kemalist, 68 year old CHP President Kemal Kilicdaroglu march from Ankara to Istanbul in 25 days. Followed by a very large rally in Istanbul on Sunday.
"We will be breaking down the walls of fear," he told the crowd.
"The last day of our Justice March is a new beginning, a new step"
Is the reason Ergodan keeps focusing on the exiled Gulen here in the US to draw attention away from Kilicdaroglu?
this is good news ...non?
In my opinion, it is largely a personal grudge, but also as you suggest a distraction from what Erdogan is doing to Turkey.
There are some hints of the battle if you look at:
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/03/turkish-banker-arrested-new-york.html
Preet Bharara (now removed federal Judge) is involved in this prosecution. There were some of Erdogan’s family implicated in this money deal. Details are not totally clear from this article, but Erdogan’s family has been playing wild games of hide the money. This bank helped him. Some of the money was from illegal oil shipments from ISIS in Syria.
I pray that the people of Turkey can throw off this Erdogan dictatorship.
Free Turkey!
Justice!
I’m totally for that. As long as the Kurds are freed in the process. That would be a win win.
Erdogan will take Turkey to war with it’s neighbors. They may actually lose that.
This one is in God’s hands. (they all are)
Turkey Ping
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