Antria Demetriou

2 weeks ago | greeneuropeanjournal.eu | Antria Demetriou |Jean-Pierre Filiu |Kaya Genç

The protests over the arrest of Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu are the biggest display of anti-government feeling in Turkey in more than a decade. People are being punished for challenging the country’s culture of silence, but they remain determined to make their voices heard and to close the rift between private and public life. On 29 March, hundreds of thousands gathered at Istanbul’s Maltepe beach area – and some even say it was 2.2 million.