Turkish police arrest dozens for ‘insulting’ Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his family

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Turkish police have arrested dozens of people for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdo ।an and his family during the street protests as a result of his main rival arrest this week.

Istanbul mayor prison Ekrem ̇mamoğluThe most popular politician in the country has expressed political and financial turmoil in Turkey, has burned the largest public protests for more than a decade and encouraged investors to sell Turkish wealth.

Opponents say they will reduce a week’s protests due to a week outside the Istanbul City Hall but the latest arrest has been announced, but it says that the government supports.

Turkey’s finance minister and the central bank governor to make a conference with investors in London on Tuesday to assure investors that they will stick to a recovery program for the $ 1.3TN economy.

Imamoglu’s arrest on March 7 on corruption charges, which he denied, had a dramatic growth in Erdo ।an’s crackdown against the opposition. Thousands of people have taken to the streets for fear that Turkey’s longest serving leader has become autocratic.

The 5 -year -old president called the protest “street terrorism” and emphasized that the judiciary worked independently against Imamulu. Monday, Erdo ।n The main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) accused the protests of “evil in the country”.

On Tuesday morning, Home Minister Ali Yarikaya said the police had allegedly “provocative” and were searching for more suspects that the protesters alleged that “our president, his late mother and family were abused.”

At least 5 people have been arrested in protests across the country. A journalist union reported that police launched a raid on the home of four journalists and photographers on Monday and took them to custody on Monday.

CHP Party leader Ezagar Ezel said that a rally on Tuesday night would be the last of the opposition party at the City Hall and on Wednesday, a CHP member will be elected to stand in favor of Amamoğlu in an attempt to prevent the government from control the municipality.

On Tuesday, Ezel visited Imamolu at a jail in the west of Istanbul, where several political dissatisfied. He arrested the mayor and two other CHP mayors with him as “holding his head”.

“I was ashamed of this regime for the circumstances in Turkey,” he said outside the Cylivry Jail. “They thought it would be so easy, ‘since I can’t and cannot defeat mamamoğlu, so I will only release him.’ They didn’t take into account ”the response, he said.

CHP has called on supporters that it has said that the Erdo ।an government returns from a discipline of the coffee shop to a book salesman and a tour operator.

The team has caused disaster over the economy, inflation is about 5 percent. In the municipal elections last year, CHP shared the largest vote nationwide with Erdo ।an’s biggest push in two decades.

Imamolu defeated Erdo ।an’s handpic candidate for the mayor of Turkey’s largest city, winning more than 5 percent points. He has consistently surpassed Erdo ।an in the next choice of voters for the President, though elections are not scheduled until 2021.

Investors fled Turkish resources last week and forced the central bank to sell billions of dollars in foreign exchange reserves To strengthen LiraThe

Finance Minister Mehmet şimşEK and central bank governor Fatih Karahan is calling global investors to “evaluate the latest development of the Turkish economy”, said Emek’s office.