“Erdogan Istifa”, Erdogan Dimetti. The 2.2 million people who, according to the organizers, gathered in Maltepe, a neighborhood in the Asian part of Istanbul, already in the past in the past the scene of ocean and ocean of the opposition. 10 days have passed since the detention of the former mayor Imamoglu. The maxi event joined six parties, including the Kurdish one and although only the latter and the CHP, the Republican Party of the people, are present in force in Parliament, the result was a varied and probably really reformist square, as Turkey had not seen for some time.
But even the Rema calendar against those who would like a future without Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Today the nine days of festival planned after the end of Ramadan, the sacred month of Muslim fasting begin. The megalopolis on the Bosphorus has emptied and the president hopes that this interval dampens the anger of those who in the last 10 days has taken to the streets to protest.
But the Maltepe square is determined to go all the way. And, unlike the protest of Gezi Parki, in 2013, this time he has political references to rely on. Özgur Özel, who took the republican party in his hand, the main opposition formation, in 2023, tried to weaken it in form and substance. Younger candidates, the will to attract a wider electorate than in the past, an accent on the secularism of the country, but above all on the need to return to democracy. There is little Europe, but the distance between the crescent and Brussels is now sidereal and to start filling it, assuming that it is possible to do it totally, first there is a need for a Türkiye definitively returned to the tracks of the rule of law.
On stage, Imamoglu’s family rose first, with his wife Dilek who has now become a real symbol of the protest and who has shown that he has a charisma equal to that of the husband, followed immediately after by the mayor of Ankara, Mansur Yavas. This is not a chance made at random. The government of the capital, always on the guidance of CHP, is also under investigation by the judiciary for alleged offenses. The fear is that Yavas, long -term politician and known for his combative temperament, can be the next victim of the president. In reality, from the stage, IMamoglu himself spoke, thanks to a video made with artificial intelligence and who literally galvanized the participants.
The square of Maltepe speaks of a transversal Türkiye and the presence of the Dem Party, the Kurdish wire formation, is a detail of not negligible importance. Just in the past few weeks, the PKK, the Kurdistan workers’ party, has announced that it had abandoned the armed struggle following the appeal of Abdullah Öcalan, founder of the separatist group, considered terrorist by Turkey, the United States and the European Union. ‘Apo’, as the Kurds call him, has been in prison on the island of Imrali since 1999, but the spiritual leader for the whole Kurdish minority is still considered. For some time it has been rumored that President Erdogan and the former terrorist have achieved an agreement that provides for constitutional awards for the Kurds in exchange for their vote for reforms, which would allow Erdogan to recover in 2028. The fact that the Kurdish party was in the square represents an important fact, which suggests to monitor his relationship with the presidency in the coming weeks.
Erdogan hopes for the party. Meanwhile, he can continue to count on the support of the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, and above all of the American one, Donald Trump, for which ‘the sultan’ is too useful so that he can fall right now.
