Turkey: 2.2 million people attended Maltepe meeting in support of Imamoglu

[captainbasculin@lemmy.ml]

Millions of people have joined together to voice their demands of justice after Imamoglu's arrest. Imamoglu is the lead candidate against Erdogan's presidency, and has been pushing for an early election before his arrest.

[quarterswede@lemmy.world]

Good for them.

[troyunrau@lemmy.ca]

That's a crazy amount of people under any circumstances. World, take note - this is how you protest.

[zonnewin@feddit.nl]

Now it's high time for European leaders to show their support as well.

[suoko@feddit.it]

2 out of 15

[torrentialgrain@lemm.ee]

I hope this has a good outcome for Turkish democracy. Mainly for their own sakes of course, but the western world also really needs a win against autocratic regimes at this point in history.

[punksnotdead@slrpnk.net]

What does this mean?

Originally I thought you meant 2 million out of 15 million people but Turkey's population is 86 million

[Guest]

Maybe he meant the population of Istanbul which is 15 million. That is fucking huge. In relative and absolute terms.

[akasazh@feddit.nl]

They are deathly afraid of the immigrants Erdogan is holding back

[suoko@feddit.it]

Istanbul is 15M

[zonnewin@feddit.nl]

https://www.euronews.com/2025/03/29/eu-delegation-visits-jailed-erdogan-rival-ekrem-imamoglu-in-istanbul-prison