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30 Мар 2025

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By Ruth Michaelson, The Guardian (UK)

Turkish opposition leader calls for weekly rallies and deeper economic boycott

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Turkey’s anti-government protesters are weighing their options, amid calls by the main opposition leader for weekly rallies, a growing economic boycott and a groundswell of fired-up student demonstrators determined to stay on the streets.

The leader of the Republican People’s party (CHP), Özgür Özel, expanded a call to boycott goods and services from companies perceived as close to the president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, during a rally in support of the jailed Istanbul mayor, Ekrem İmamoğlu.

Speaking to the hundreds of thousands of opposition supporters who filled a park in Istanbul over the weekend, Özel took aim at the Doğuş Group, a Turkish conglomerate that owns the pro-government NTV channel, and its ties to Erdoğan. ..

The CHP leader also called on Turkish companies not to advertise on pro-government media channels that have broadcast limited news of the protests, often hewing closely to Erdoğan’s depiction of the demonstrations as “a movement of violence”…

The detention of İmamoğlu sparked Turkey’s largest anti-government protests in years, with people gathering nightly around Istanbul city hall and frequently clashing with police. ..

The CHP has directed its supporters’ ire towards a growing list of products and services to boycott, including Turkey’s most popular chocolate brand, the coffee chain Espressolab, a home appliances company and a chain of malls…

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