Protests continue to grow across Turkey today, with officials expressing surprise that a half-hearted apology by the deputy prime minister hadn’t magically caused the large number of grievances to go away.
Instead the protesters, with the backing of union leaders, are demanding that the police chiefs of several of the cities were the bloodiest crackdowns took place be immediately ousted. There is no indication that this is even being considered.
The crackdowns have left at least two protesters dead and over 2,300 wounded, with large numbers of demonstrators detained on a myriad of pretexts, mostly centering on their protesting being personally insulting to Prime Minister Erdogan.
Police in Izmir, a port city, arrested 25 people today for postings on Twitters which mostly centered on the location of police blockades. They are being charged with “disinformation” despite the posts apparently being accurate. Officials also said the Twitter users are being held on “suspicion of stirring insurrection.”
You are talking to a Neo religious dictatorial regime.., Erdoganian style.., for these people the police chiefs, the civilian secret service which were torturing young man and women on the spot are the "safeguard" angels in such regimes.., they are not going to be replaced because such regime don't have any other to replace them with. But if Erdogan goes then the entire house of Neo religious dictatorial regime will collapse.., the system needs these mentally sick even feeds and prizes these little Angeles of death.., for such days…, for their job is to keep the dictatorial regime alive so they can continue with their undemocratic politics.., STRANGE but true.., they are friends and "ally" of USA.