İstanbul student alleges torture after sharing videos of police mistreating protesters - Stockholm Center for Freedom

Since mid-March, many Turks have been constantly demonstrating against the detention of Istanbul's mayor İmamoğlu. Young people in particular are active because they see their future threatened. They risk a lot for this. By Markus Rosch.

The trial of 49 young people who were detained in the protests that started after the arrest of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu has begun. The court decided to write to the police to include the images of the protests in the file and postponed the hearing to October 24, 2025. The first hearing of the case filed against 49 young people for participating in the protests that started after the arrest of Istanbul Metropolitan…

İstanbul student alleges torture after sharing videos of police mistreating protesters - Stockholm Center for Freedom

A university student in İstanbul has alleged on social media that he was tortured in police custody after being detained for sharing images and videos online that showed police officers mistreating demonstrators during anti-government protests. Eren Üner, a history student at İstanbul University, was detained on March 24 at home. Üner had compiled and shared a series of images and videos on X that allegedly showed riot police violently dispersin…

Turks in Eindhoven protest against repression Erdoğan

The Turkish community demonstrated on  18 Septemberplein last Saturday against the political repression in Turkey.   One month ago the mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem İmamoğlu, was arrested. İmamoğlu is a political opponent of the current  president of Turkey, Tayyip Erdoğan. The latter suppresses any protest in reaction to İmamoğlu’s arrest with the use of force. Merve, spokesperson of Hollanda Dayanismasi, the organisation behind the demonstration,…

Criticizing the cancellation of the diploma of the imprisoned Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, former TBMM Speaker Bülent Arınç said that those who think that a conspiracy was set up are not wrong. Arınç also reacted to the "junta" remarks of CHP Chairman Özgür Özel.