[ April 19, 2024 ]
We have become so used to protests and demos staged by leftists, anarchists and Muslim theocrats that when we see a genuine spontaneous movement by freedom-loving people, it’s a shock to the senses. Make no mistake, this is a rally against brutal Islamic rule. And every attendee is at great personal risk by taking this stand. And they know it, too.
Photo: The rally is by far the biggest by the opposition seen in Istanbul since the mass May-June 2013 demonstrations against Erdogan’s rule.
Turkish opposition in mass ‘justice’ rally challenge to Erdogan
By Fulya Ozerkan, Stuart Williams, Yahoo News, July 9, 2017:
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A sea of people filled the vast shoreside square in Maltepe on the Asian side of Istanbul, celebrating the culmination of a 450-kilometre (280-mile) “justice march” from Ankara to Istanbul by Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu.
The rally is by far the biggest by the opposition seen in Istanbul since the mass May-June 2013 demonstrations against Erdogan’s rule.
Kilicdaroglu began the 25-day walk to protest the arrest of one of his MPs. It rapidly grew into a major march against alleged injustices under a state of emergency imposed following last year’s July 15 failed coup.
“Nobody should think this march is the last one. It’s the first step,” Kilicdaroglu told crowds who roared back with the cry “Justice!”.
“Everyone should know very well that July 9 is a new step, a new history… a new birth,” he added.
Usually, only Erdogan can mobilise crowds on such a scale with glitzy rallies and the president himself had in the past held mass meetings for supporters in the Maltepe meeting area.
– ‘Gandhi march’ –
The government has dismissed the march as a stunt while a riled Erdogan has accused Kilicdaroglu of siding with “terrorists” and the July 15 plotters.
But Turkish security forces did nothing to impede the march’s progress and 15,000 police were deployed at the rally to ensure safety.
CHP officials told AFP that numbers at the rally could be more than two million but this could not be immediately confirmed.
Supporters have compared the trek of the slightly built, mustachioed 69-year-old with Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi’s famous Salt March of 1930.
Since leaving Ankara, the opposition chief has dressed every day modestly in a white shirt, dark trousers, with a hat to protect him from the sun. He rested at night in a caravan.
Kilicdaroglu said he had marched for all of Turkey’s population of nearly 80 million.
“We have written history, we have written a legend. It’s you who has written history,” he told the cheering crowds.
Kilicdaroglu had launched the march from Ankara after his party’s lawmaker Enis Berberoglu, a former journalist, was sentenced to 25 years in jail on charges of leaking classified information to a newspaper.
Kilicdaroglu had said he wanted no CHP insignia at the rally, only “Justice” slogans and pictures of modern Turkey’s founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
At the rally the huge stage, flanked by pictures of Ataturk and the Turkish flag, had only a single word printed on its canopy — “Adalet” (Justice) — in giant letters.
– ‘We marched for justice’ –
About 50,000 people have been arrested under Turkey’s state of emergency and another 100,000 have lost their jobs, including teachers, judges, soldiers and police.
“We marched for justice, we marched for the rights of the oppressed. We marched for the MPs in jail. We marched for the arrested journalists. We marched for the university academics dismissed from their jobs,” said Kilicdaroglu.
“We marched because the judiciary is under a political monopoly,” he added.
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47 Comments
6 years ago
I get it. Those are the “good” Muslims. They would never persecute non-Muslims……Now you sound just like Daniel Pipes. Remember him? You used to oppose his message. Now your message has gotten almost as weak as his. Sad.
6 years ago
Reply to
LogansWarning
they have a large Liberal section that reflects US liberals. Including anti male-dominated capitalism lol.
6 years ago
Nice meaningless gesture, turkey has rejected secularism in favour of islam. All that could possibly happen is exchanging one sultan for another.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
its pretty evenly split. Atitatirk is still a national hero & people dont want to change what he set up. His picture is in every city, office building, hotel— he changed the alphabet to Latin letters
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
A majority of Turks does not equal all Turks. I feel very sorry for those that voted against Erdogan.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
Islamists were never happy with his changes. Hence civil wars. The people elected Islamist PMs on back- to- Islam tickets, the Army killed or overthrew them, as guardians of Ataturk’s secular / nationalist dream. 2016 coup fails this time, Army, judiciary, police dead or imprisoned, Islam wins. You would think someone noticed they won, would be worried. No, all the west sees is “democracy in action.” The people support Erdogan. (With a few concerns expressed for the thousands arrested. ) We are sooo nice.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
the Turks came from Mongolia! but after centuries of roaming thru Iran, Syria, Islam wore them down. Anti Erdogan is for some anti Islam.
6 years ago
Reply to
harbidoll
muslims are not conditioned to think, like insects, they follow the one in front of them no matter what. This is why islamic nations are such primitive sewers as progress or change are seen as apostasy.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
to varying degrees. Thas why politicians & others are trying to separate the moderates from the extremist.(stick & carrot) Thas the best we can do. The final “separating” will come on judgment day.
6 years ago
Reply to
harbidoll
He banned Muslim dress, the Arabic call from mosques was swapped for Turkish, Islamic calendar changed to Gregorian, revived Turkish language, imposed Turkish law over Shariah, , disposed of Christians and Armenians purely in the interests of territorial expansion and Turkish nationalism. No religious bias ! “Everything I do, I do it for you.” Above all, he wanted to make Turkey independent of Arab national influence. “Even before accepting the religion of the Arabs, the Turks were a great nation. ” K.A.
6 years ago
Reply to
Erica Ling
80% of Muslims arnt Arab & resent Arab cultural supremacist. I have noticed the Buddhist influence still in the Turks. I was surprised. But everywhere Islam is — Islamist’s jihadis lurk! It is the down side of Islam. Erdogan Must deal with them.
6 years ago
Reply to
Erica Ling
Nice job evading the fact he also slaughtered upwards of a million Greeks, but that probably doesn’t get your rump in a frump does it?
6 years ago
Reply to
harbidoll
Do they celebrate Ataturk’s slaughter of upwards of a million, mostly Christian, Greeks? Do you?
6 years ago
Reply to
harbidoll
So some genocide is more acceptable than others eh? Funny thing, the vast majority of those Greeks just happened to be Christians — as did the Cypriots who were ethnically cleansed in the 1970’s. Your excuses for muslum barbarism run thin.
6 years ago
Reply to
IzlamIsTyranny
when heading East its “Colonialism”, when heading West its “Genocide”. Dont worry Im on the Judeo-Christian side. I dont have White Guilt, just regret. (The blood of Christ removes guilt!)
6 years ago
This does not alter the fact they are still Muslims. They are governed by Erdogan who wants to restore the old Ottoman Empire.
6 years ago
Reply to
farflung
>… This does not alter the fact they are still Muslims …
Many of them are NOT
But this does not alter the fact that the libtards in the West still give their support to Erdogan
6 years ago
Reply to
Kalambong Kalambong
Yes, I think this short couple minutes will give you a better perspective. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLiYxi89QMw
6 years ago
Reply to
Kalambong Kalambong
Demographics give us 99.8 % Muslim mostly Sunni, 2 % other, mostly Jews and Christians.
6 years ago
Reply to
Erica Ling
Why don’t we ask the “other” in Turkey what they think of “secular” Turkey?
My Armenian friend doesn’t think much of Turkey — considering the muslum Turks slaughtered his grandmother’s entire family and deny responsibility for it to this day.
6 years ago
THE PRECIOUS PEOPLE OF TURKEY ARE WAKING UP TO THE EVIL THAT ERDOGAN TRULY IS !!
” LORD JESUS PLEASE INTERVENE AND HELP THE PEOPLE OF TURKEY GAIN THEIR INDEPENDENCE AND TOTAL DEMOCRACY !! AMEN ! “
6 years ago
Reply to
Greg K. Liebig Sr.
ya like in Egypt, Iran, Tunisia –right?. You saw how That ended. We saw at the G20 meeting, Erdogan grasping at Putin’s arm & looking around desperately for friends. US helping his enemies the Kurds. Easy to see where this is going.
6 years ago
Reply to
Greg K. Liebig Sr.
Erdogan is no better than ISIS but a stealth jihadi with same end goal.
And Turkey allows harvesting of organs from refugees and killing them in the process http://tinyurl.com/mfpzzl8
And that includes killing children too ! And even UN was aware of it for over 3 years but keeps blaming syrian govt !
6 years ago
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6 years ago
Less evil Muslims maybe, but evil none the less
6 years ago
Remember the bromance that existed between Obhammud and Erdogan, his “favorite”?
6 years ago
Turkey is walking down the same road that Iran in 1978 did. Most parts of Turkey especially in the big cities life was western like, with almost a complete segregation between islam daily life and politics. Turkish women did not wear burqas and were not oppressed. With Erdogan this has come under pressure. Its sad to see his unfold. Another country falling victem to the horror of islam.
6 years ago
Surely, this is SCARING the bejeebers out of this phony tyrant. As I’ve said we people outnumber the morons at least a 100,000 to one and it is best we remind these morons.
6 years ago
Reply to
Alleged Comment
Agreed. The pissed off public far outnumber his security apparatus. And whatever effect that phony “coup” attempt was supposed to have was blown by his protection detail publicly assaulting those protesters in DC.
6 years ago
This is very encouraging, but caught me completely by surprise. I never expected it. I hope it’s not too late.
D
6 years ago
The fall of Constantinople opened the floodgates, allowing the Turks to invade Europe.
6 years ago
Hilliary’s Campaign Groupies: ” Just call them a basket of Deplorables !! ”
6 years ago
Reply to
AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
Groupies go to hell. The boot of izlum will soon be on their necks.
6 years ago
This will not end well for the protesters. Erdogan will not put up with this for very long.
Bob
6 years ago
Sounds like more Arab Springtime. Could there be civil war? Statehood for the Kurds?
6 years ago
This is what a demonstration of Trump voters should look like – against the tyranny of obama’s leftovers.
6 years ago
What a beautiful site! This is what a demonstration of Trump voters should look like – against the tyranny of obama’s leftovers.
6 years ago
Erdogan needs to stage another “coup” to consolidate more power…
6 years ago
Reply to
Jackie Puppet
Er-dog-an has been president or PM of Turkey for nearly two DECADES, this is what an islamic “democracy” looks like.
6 years ago
Could be the start of a people power revolution if the demonstrators make it non-aggressive, blocking those tanks and soldiers sent by Erdogan to quell them w/ phalanxes of people until the military steps in to defuse the situation, just like the Phil. people power revolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_Power_Revolution w/c has became the template of the subsequent people revolutions, even though some of those got hijacked by the jihadists.
6 years ago
This is nothing more than a case of muslums wanting to have their cake and eat it too. The f’ing muslums in Turkey don’t mind the kafir al najjis being persecuted and treated like second class citizens — just so long as they aren’t.
6 years ago
The Attaturk was the only hope for moderate Islam. Turkey was a successful country with the second largest army in NATO.
