This is the Guardian.
Today, Turkey's president has jailed his biggest rival.
But will that stop him?
Last week, Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan,
arrested his biggest political opponent, the mayor of Istanbul.
And it was seen as one one of the worst blows to what's left of Turkish democracy in decades.
But the response these past few days on the streets of Istanbul has become one of Turkey's most hopeful moments.
For years.
When I went down to the protests and started talking to people,
you had just huge crowds of people pouring out of the metro station,
pouring into the street, walking towards City hall, taking selfies as fireworks go off overhead.
Ruth Michelson, a foreign correspondent covering this for the Guardian from Istanbul,
has been among the massive crowds out on the streets of the city night after night.
These are the biggest protests that Turkey has seen since the 2013 Gezi park protests.
We are seeing people out on the streets, not just in Istanbul, but in places far beyond,
places that are much more traditionally associated with support for the president,
Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
That's part of what makes this so significant, is not just the numbers, but the locations.
Erdogan has been in power for more than 20 years, slowly strangling any room for opposition.
Last week, his critics say he tried to snuff it out for good, but he might have miscalculated.