Erdogan non è più il presidente, ma il capo di una giunta: principale leader dell’opposizione

Quote from Özgür Özel’s speech in Düzce, a small city in Marmara:

>What is being done here is a coup. Coups target those in power—they stare the opposition in the eye. In the past, coups were carried out against them, and we stood against them. We said, “Only the people can remove those whom the people have elected, not the military.”

>Now they are staging a coup.

>Today’s government is staging a coup against the government of the future. Today’s president is staging a coup against the president of the future. Today’s palace regime is staging a coup against İmamoğlu.

>Erdogan became the president with the votes of the people until now. But with the coup he has carried out after March 19, he is no longer the president—he is the head of a junta, the leader of a coup regime.

>So what will we do?

>Will we stay silent?

>Will we retreat?

>Will we surrender?

>Will we leave our friends behind?

>I was supposed to head to Antalya from here—but instead, I am now heading to Istanbul. Tonight in Istanbul, I will stand with all our municipalities and families in solidarity, and I will motivate our friends in Istanbul for the strongest possible resistance against what is happening.

>I will fight alongside them.

>We will not stop.

>If necessary, we will not sleep.

>We will not surrender to this evil.

The EU and the “western world” still haven’t put his legitimacy into question. Photos, videos, and sound of Ekrem İmamoğlu are not allowed in public. A recent decision by the regime penalized it. Hundreds of public servants are arrested. Students were beaten and tortured. TV channels are being silenced.

Yet the international community plays the ‘don’t ask, don’t say’, and still approaches as if Turkey has a legitimate government. How does it differ from, for instance, Belarus or Russia? Let alone playing the cards, such as suspending the customs union, they still maintain the so-called cooperation.

Never mind Trump or Putin – also the EU. CHP’s Özel first-handedly claimed that Keir Starmer (social democrat, hah!!) was one of the figures behind the special operation against human rights and democracy. What does Labour even think about suppressing the democratic discourse? Just act like they did nothing, I guess.

From president to potential junta leader? That’s not a promotion, it’s a plot twist!