Spending a day in front of the progress of the progressive media, which hold 90 % of the Turkish media landscape is to enter a parallel and closed world, very far from the unprecedented mobilization in progress and its cries of revolt. Since the arrest on Wednesday, March 19, of the mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem Imamoglu, candidate for the presidential election of the People's Republican Party (CHP, opposition) and main rival of the Head of State, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the images of the monster demonstrations of the past few days are reduced to a few repeated scenes in the loop of clashes with the police.
CHP is described there as a corruption cesspool. And the councilor and his collaborators are accused, tirelessly and without restraint, of diversion of money, terrorism and betrayal. Tuesday evening March 25, when the president of the Kemalist training, Özgür Özel, is addressed before the municipality to the crowd – 300,000 people, according to the CHP -, the guests of the Trt Grande Public Channel Debate Trth Disserted on the facts of corruption of which the town hall of Istanbul would have been guilty, involving specialists and legal experts.
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Source: Lemonde