Turkey experiences biggest unrest in a decade

土耳其遭遇十年来最大动荡

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2025-03-24

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Turkey's interior ministry says 1,133 people have been detained after days of protests against the arrest last week of Istanbul's popular mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu, on corruption charges. More than 70 demonstrators were detained overnight outside Istanbul. Police also arrested a number of left-wing politicians, lawyers and at least 10 journalists in pre-dawn raids. Also in the programme: US negotiators are meeting their Russian counterparts in Saudi Arabia, as part of Donald Trump's push for a quick end to the war in Ukraine; and the DNA testing firm 23andMe has filed for bankruptcy protection in the US - so could customers' genetic data get into the wrong hands? (Photo: A person holds a flower towards police officers, during a protest on the day Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu was jailed as part of a corruption investigation, in Istanbul, Turkey, March 23, 2025. Reuters/Alexandros Avramidis)
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  • That's the sound of crowd chaos in one of Europe's biggest cities, cities in Stamboul.

  • The popping noises you can hear are the sounds of police using tear gas,

  • water cannon and pepper spray to try to repel thousands of angry protesters.

  • And perhaps it tells us just how angry they are over the arrest of Turkey's main opposition figure,

  • Ekrem Imamolu.