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3 mayors arrested in southern Turkey as part of crackdown on opposition
AP ^ | July 5, 2025 | ANDREW WILKS

Posted on 07/05/2025 5:19:24 PM PDT by george76

The mayors of three major cities in southern Turkey were arrested Saturday, state-run media reported, joining a growing list of opposition figures detained since the mayor of Istanbul was imprisoned in March.

Abdurrahman Tutdere, the mayor of Adiyaman, and Zeydan Karalar, who heads Adana municipality, were detained in early morning raids, according to Anadolu Agency. Both are members of the main opposition Republican People’s Party, or CHP.

The CHP mayor of Antalya, Muhittin Bocek, was arrested with two other suspects in a separate bribery investigation by the Antalya Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office, Anadolu reported.

CHP officials have faced waves of arrests this year that many consider aimed at neutralizing Turkey’s main opposition party. The government insists prosecutors and the judiciary act independently but the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu led to the largest street protests Turkey has seen in more than a decade.

Karalar was arrested near Istanbul and Tutdere was arrested in the capital, Ankara, where he has a home. Tutdere posted on X that he was being taken to Istanbul. Police also carried out searches at the municipal offices in Adana and Adiyaman.

Eleven people, including Karalar and Tutdere, were arrested as part of an investigation by the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office

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Imamoglu, widely considered the main challenger to Erdogan ’s 22-year rule, was jailed four months ago over corruption allegations. As part of the investigation into Imamoglu, the deputy mayor of Istanbul’s Buyukcekmece district was also arrested Saturday.

The former CHP mayor of Izmir, Turkey’s third-largest city, and 137 municipal officials were detained earlier this week as part of an investigation into alleged tender-rigging and fraud. On Friday, ex-Mayor Tunc Soyer and 59 others were jailed pending trial in what Soyer’s lawyer described as “a clearly unjust, unlawful and politically motivated decision.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: erdogan; islamofascism; islamofascists; koranimals; nato; receptayyiperdogan; turkey
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1 posted on 07/05/2025 5:19:24 PM PDT by george76
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Erdogan cracking down on his political opponents...just like his buddy in Ukraine.


2 posted on 07/05/2025 5:46:13 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: george76

The Nation of Islam wanting to capture Turkey ?


3 posted on 07/05/2025 5:55:17 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Sailing the Seas of Ignorance on a ship named "Free Republic".)
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Ottoman Empire 2.0 is coming.


4 posted on 07/05/2025 5:56:24 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: UCANSEE2

Unfortunately.


5 posted on 07/05/2025 6:11:18 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: dfwgator

And it won’t be good at all.


6 posted on 07/05/2025 6:11:30 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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Why is this country still part of NATO?


7 posted on 07/05/2025 6:25:49 PM PDT by Negan
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To: dfwgator
Ottoman Empire 2.0 is coming.

The Islamic conquest of Europe began in 2015 when Erdogan released a million "migrants" into Europe, and most made their way to Germany. Erdogan won't live to see it, but one of his successors will arm and fund Islamic political resistance in Europe, like Erdogan did in Syria to eliminate the secular Assad, who ironically, was a throwback to Ataturk.

8 posted on 07/05/2025 7:27:38 PM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: george76

Arrested? I suppose that is better than the polonium appetizers.


9 posted on 07/05/2025 7:28:39 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try - AND - Every Time You Fall Down, Get The Frak Up! )
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To: mass55th

And Lindsey Graham loves both of them.


10 posted on 07/05/2025 7:39:02 PM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS, REMEMBER REV; NIEMOLLER)
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The Sultan Erdogan was given Syria by Lindsey Graham and DJT and has Azerbaijan and Qatar in close orbit.

The drum beaters for Israel have openly warned of the Qatari influence.

Cops in Israel are investigating Qatari money going to people who were close to Netanyahu that’s how crazy it is with Qatar and its money that went to Hamas as well in Gaza.


11 posted on 07/05/2025 7:43:30 PM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS, REMEMBER REV; NIEMOLLER)
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To: Right_Wing_Madman

This is Cologne, not Istanbul.

12 posted on 07/05/2025 7:58:45 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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"And Lindsey Graham loves both of them."

ROFL!!! Both their ends.

13 posted on 07/05/2025 8:03:14 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: Nextrush

If I were Armenian, I would be feeling pretty nervous.


14 posted on 07/05/2025 9:39:56 PM PDT by CrimsonTidegirl (R.I.P. Diogo Jota! Gone too soon! You’ll never walk alone. #20 #Liverpool)
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The situation is interesting between Russia and Azerbaijan right now with internal conflict underway inside Armenia between pro and anti-EU NATO forces.

The Russian military maintains a presence in Armenia.


15 posted on 07/05/2025 9:50:04 PM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS, REMEMBER REV; NIEMOLLER)
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“The Sultan Erdogan was given Syria by Lindsey Graham and DJT”

How exactly, did “DJT” do that?


16 posted on 07/05/2025 11:40:21 PM PDT by rxh4n1
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By lifting the sanctions on Syria recently to sanctify the takeover by the Turkish-backed jihadists.

Back in the Bush-Obama days the sanctions were imposed in the first place to isolate Syria then wage war on it starting in 2011.

The old regime that Trump described with the expression “butcher Assad” is gone.

Trump would explain the recent lifting of sanctions to you and me as reversing bad policies of Obama and so on.

I saw the POTUS get testy with Benjamin Netanyahu when Bibi raised objections to the new Syrian government. Right there in the Oval Office with JD Vance and so on.


17 posted on 07/06/2025 4:50:26 AM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS, REMEMBER REV; NIEMOLLER)
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“By lifting the sanctions on Syria”

That isn’t giving Syria to Erdogan. He already had it. Got any better ideas? What do you want? More war?


18 posted on 07/06/2025 9:14:03 AM PDT by rxh4n1
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To: Negan
Why is this country still part of NATO?

Most countries in the EU are doing this already.

Even USA did the same stuff (under the Biden Administration).

19 posted on 07/06/2025 9:15:23 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: rxh4n1

A decision has been made to placate Turkey-Qatar and aligned nations of the New Ottoman Empire that is for sure for better or worse.


20 posted on 07/06/2025 11:42:29 AM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS, REMEMBER REV; NIEMOLLER)
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