There was a sea of humanity out in the streets last Saturday to protest the jailing of Turkey’s popular presidential contender Ekrem Imamoglu, but now the country’s on a weeklong post-Ramadan break. Long enough to dull the momentum of the country’s biggest mass movement in more than a decade?
For now, the mayor of Istanbul’s center-left CHP party calling for weekly Wednesday rallies and consumer boycotts to keep up the pressure, this despite a widening crackdown. What makes this movement different to all the others which have tried and failed to unseat a leader of 22 years, who despite inflation and incumbent fatigue retains a solid base. So, going forward, is time on Recep Tayep Erdogan’s side? The president needs early elections if he’s to change the constitution and lift term limits before 2028. And in a nation where judges and civil servants seem to fall in line when needed, elections remain the one process that Erdogan can’t seem to control.
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