More than 100 people, including CHP\u2019s (main opposition party) \u0130stanbul Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Ekrem \u0130mamo\u011flu, were issued detention orders today. \u0130mamo\u011flu has long been a target of the government, given his potential candidacy as CHP\u2019s presidential nominee.<\/p>\n
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Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) views the issue in the context of the AKP\u2019s attacks aimed at narrowing the political space and usurpation of people\u2019s right to engage in politics. Today, TKP released the following statement accordingly:<\/p>\n
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“As of this morning, the detention order issued for more than 100 people, including Istanbul Metropolitan Mayor Ekrem \u0130mamo\u011flu and journalist \u0130smail Saymaz, is unacceptable. The Istanbul Governorship\u2019s decisions, which effectively impose a state of emergency in the city out of concern for potential public reactions, are also part of this unacceptable situation.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The words “pressure” and “lawlessness” fall short in describing what is happening. We are faced with a reactionary mindset that perceives the people\u2019s right to organize and engage in politics as a threat, alongside its practices that completely disregard justice. The AKP government, which represents the full darkness of this system of religious sects and monopolies, is failing to rule the country and thus becoming more and more aggressive.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The consecutive steps taken against \u0130mamo\u011flu, regardless of their individual content, point to a single fact: AKP does not tolerate the people\u2019s right to vote and be elected if the outcome is not in its favor.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The detention of journalist \u0130smail Saymaz on alleged links to the Gezi Resistance is nothing more than a denial of the people\u2019s right to political engagement and have a say on the way of the country is being ruled.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The public will that emerged during the Gezi Resistance could not be exploited despite attempts by international forces or AKP\u2019s own allies; nor could the struggle for the Republic, secularism, and independence be undermined. Moreover, the so-called “Arab Spring,” with which the Gezi Resistance has been falsely associated, was part of imperialist plans and interventions in the region\u2014plans in which AKP was both involved and complicit. Meanwhile, Soros, often mentioned in this context, represents an international financial network with which both the AKP and its former ally, the Fethullah G\u00fclen sect, openly collaborated in dismantling the Turkish Republic.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Defending the people\u2019s right to organize and participate in politics will be the strongest response to these irrational impositions.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Our party, which has maintained an unwavering stance against the AKP from the very beginning, opposes these reckless attacks on the political arena. Our ideological, political, and class-based differences with the line represented by Ekrem \u0130mamo\u011flu do not prevent us from taking this stance. TKP will stand against all of AKP\u2019s attempts to suppress universal suffrage and restrict the political space. We will adjust our political agenda and priorities accordingly, recognizing that AKP has chosen to escalate its political and legal assaults.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n All those detained today, including Ekrem \u0130mamo\u011flu and \u0130smail Saymaz, must be released immediately.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n We call on our people to organize against AKP\u2019s tyranny and to strengthen the alternative of the working people to build a country which is republican, ruled with a state-led economy, enlightenment and working class patriotism oriented, against a system suffering from an increasingly deep ruling crisis.”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" More than 100 people, including CHP\u2019s (main opposition party) \u0130stanbul Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Ekrem \u0130mamo\u011flu, were issued detention orders today. \u0130mamo\u011flu has long been a target of the government, given his potential candidacy as CHP\u2019s presidential nominee. Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) views the issue in the context of the AKP\u2019s attacks aimed at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":25592,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[255,257],"tags":[1720],"yoast_head":"\n