Viral video: Catch a Pikachu! Pokemon seen fleeing protests against President Erdogan rival’s arrest

In the protests against the Turkish government, a yellow Pokémon-wesen always mixes: Since a video showed how a demonstrator fled from the police in Pikachu costume, the figure has become a symbol of resistance. By C. Steiner. [more]>

Pokemon protester flees police at Istanbul anti-Erdogan protest

Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said this week that nearly 1,900 people had been detained since the protests began, adding that courts had jailed 260 of them pending trial as of Thursday.

Pikachu flees police during anti-Erdogan protest in Turkey

Person in Pokemon costume seen fleeing police together with hundreds of other protesters during protest against arrest of Istanbul Mayor and Erdogan rival Ekrem Imamoglu/

In Turkey, hundreds of thousands gathered to protest the opposition against the government on Saturday. They demonstrated for the arrested Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu and the preservation of democracy. Now even a yellow Pokémon became a political centre ... One of the demonstrators wore an inflatable Pikachu costume. He can be seen on a video on which a crowd in Antalya flees from the police. The officials try to bring the people apart with wa…

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In the demonstrations suppressed by the police, a person actually found himself in a pikachu costume. An AI image of the scene went viral.