Turkey’s authoritarian leader, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said on Monday that the “show” put on by protesters in support of jailed Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu will soon come to an end.
“Those who terrorize our streets and want to turn this country into a place of chaos have nowhere to go. The path they have taken is a dead end,” Erdogan said.
Erdogan has dismissed the protests as “street terrorism” and “evil” since they began after Imamoglu was arrested last week.
Erdogan’s critics, including members of Imamoglu’s CHP party, accused Erdogan of having the popular mayor arrested on trumped-up charges to knock him out of the next presidential election. Erdogan is rapidly approaching the legal limit for the presidency he has held for
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