Ekrem İmamoğlu
@ekrem_imamoglu · Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Yemen
Ekrem İmamoğlu is a Turkish politician and 7th mayor of Istanbul.
The AK Party got to celebrate the victory of winning an election by arresting the mayor and the municipal council members. Do you think you will be comfortable when elections in Turkey no longer have any meaning? Üsküdar is not yours. Istanbul is not yours. Turkey is not yours. It belongs to the people. The people will surely take back what belongs to them.
Translated from TurkishUnder Erdoğan's rule, neither your inflation and growth targets nor the Medium-Term Program have any meaning left. You keep making promises to the people, and you keep going back on your word. You are responsible for this broken order, where democracy, freedom, and justice are gone, and where neither businesspeople nor workers feel secure. If Erdoğan is there, there is distrust. If there is distrust, there is no stability. If there is no stability, there is no prosperity. If we want change in the economy, we will change you first.
Translated from TurkishYou are magnificent, Sultans of the Net! I wholeheartedly congratulate our women's national volleyball team on becoming European champions. You fought very well and deserved it. You made us all proud!
Translated from TurkishThe dates did not add up, the figures did not add up, and the statements of the slanderers contradicted one another. Whatever they had spent months presenting as evidence was dismantled in the courtroom. What remained was not an indictment built on evidence, but a scenario they were trying to keep afloat with contradictions.
Translated from TurkishHappy World Peace Day on September 1. The peoples of our country, our region, and the entire world increasingly need peace and tranquility amid the atmosphere of conflict in which the world finds itself. The voice of shared values, justice, and conscience is suffering deep wounds around the world. As Turkey, we must be a strong, democratic, and just country for the peace and tranquility of both our country and our region. Only then will we both experience and spread peace and stability. The understanding of “Peace at Home, Peace in the World” entrusted to us by Atatürk is our guide. May Turkey’s peace be a light both to our people and to all the peoples within reach of our hands, our strength, and our hearts… Our direction is clear. Republic. Democracy. Justice.
Translated from TurkishI learned with sadness that the passenger ship departing from the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus sank. I pray to Allah to have mercy on those who lost their lives on the ship that sank off Girne, and wish the injured a speedy recovery. I wish every success to all the teams working to find the missing. God willing, we will get through this process without further loss of life.
Translated from TurkishThese lands were won through determination, faith, and struggle. Today, it is the responsibility of us all to preserve that legacy and carry a stronger, brighter Turkey into the future. May our August 30 Victory Day be blessed.
Translated from TurkishHe was afraid of the democratic contest and had my diploma revoked. He wanted me arrested and thrown into a cell. He had my voice, face, and photograph banned. He had my social media account shut down repeatedly. That was not enough; he even had my right to defend myself in court blocked. He could not even tolerate my asking the defendants questions. Now he has also had my book, “The Nation Is My Witness,” which contains the defense they did not allow me to present, banned before it was published. Printing houses were raided by security forces and the books were confiscated. I will not be intimidated! I will not be silent! I will not stop and I will not surrender! Millions will read this book together with the people. Everyone will see my defense. Including the censors!
Translated from TurkishNo justice comes out of Silivri! Political pressure on the judiciary produced its first result on Monday. Our mayors, who have been subjected to character assassination for months and whose innocence I wholeheartedly believe in, were sentenced. I hope the higher courts will correct this mistake. In the İBB case, meanwhile, we witnessed a scandal yesterday. The case’s so-called “backbone” informant completely fell apart under cross-examination. When contradictory statements put the slanderer in a difficult position, the court prevented the lawyers from asking questions. The reason was that the judge did not like the questions. It was deemed inappropriate to ask an “unwanted” question of the person who has caused many people to remain in detention for 18 months. It is difficult to call this ongoing charade a trial. Clearly, we are no longer watching a trial, but the final act of an extrajudicial execution whose verdict was decided long ago!
Translated from TurkishDear women, ladies; Mothers, homemakers; working women, laborers, farmers, tradeswomen, entrepreneurs, managers; Turkey's future is calling you. THE NEW PARTY invites you.
Translated from TurkishI have missed you terribly! My party leader Özgür Özel is in Trabzon. Greetings to the Black Sea, its highlands, and its villages. May the hazelnuts and tea be blessed with abundance. My fellow townspeople, do not forget to offer my party leader fresh hazelnuts, black mulberries, and eggplant figs. May the excitement and enthusiasm of a NEW journey, and the Black Sea’s strong determination, be with you. I love you all very much.
Translated from TurkishWhile preparing the "Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Slander Indictment," it was repeatedly stated and proven how the prosecution created an effective-repentance witness; how people were threatened through their families, spouses, children, jobs, and freedoms! Today, too, we witnessed the unlawful climate of pressure created by seeing a person who had given an effective-repentance statement face the threat of arrest during questioning. In Silivri, all the rules of a fair trial have been demolished one by one.
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