Turkish regime police brutally suppress women’s protests
Women’s protests in the Turkish city of Adana, which were suppressed by the security authorities, have turned into a point of controversy not only between the ruling Justice and Development Party and the parties that oppose it, but also between its ally in the right-wing National Movement Party.
Although Omer Çelik, the official spokesman for the ruling party, considered that the violence used by the police against women protesters and the men who participated in their demonstration is not considered “acceptable”, Devlet Bahceli, who leads the National Movement Party, praised the efforts of the police and told them in a speech Photographer: “Your hands are safe.”
The Turkish regime police’s suppression of women’s protests in the city of Adana, south of Turkey, on the border with Syria, a few days ago, led to strong reactions on several levels on various social media, especially after the publication of a video clip documenting the police’s use of violence against women protesters and men who participated in their demonstrations. Prominent Turkish figures, including former Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, also condemned the police’s handling of protesters and protesters.
Davutoglu, who has led the “Future Party” since his resignation from the ruling party, questioned in a tweet on his official account on “Twitter” about the official who ordered the police to use violence against participants and participants in the protests that the city recently witnessed, and Omar Gergerlioglu, MP About the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party, an influential figure in the defense of human rights in Turkey, he also asked in a tweet, “Can these scenes be subject to legal accountability?”
Ali Babacan, founder and head of the “Democracy and Construction” party he has led since his resignation from the “Justice and Development” Party, also condemned the use of police violence in the Adana protests, which in turn was condemned by Temel Kerem Mulaoglu, leader of the “Islamic Happiness” party, who considered that the scenes that documented the use of the police The violence is “shocking”, according to what he wrote in a tweet on his Twitter account about the suppression of the protests in which the head of the Al-Furqan Foundation, Alparslan Koytul, who strongly criticized the Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu, similar to what Davutoglu, Babacan and others did.
A source close to the institution run by Quitul revealed to Al Arabiya.net that “a number of lawyers will move in the Turkish judiciary to hold Soylu accountable for giving orders to the police to use violence in our demonstrations in Adana,” but Soylu revealed in an official statement that “the governor of Adana has started conducting investigations.” About the protests that took place in the city, which Soylu said were not authorized, which was also stressed by the statement of the governor of Adana.
So far, the Al-Furqan Foundation has been carrying out its activities despite the existence of lawsuits against it since 2018, which may eventually lead to banning its activities, as Ankara had previously done with a number of the country’s civil institutions, especially during the failed coup attempt against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s rule, which took place in the middle of July of the year 2016.
Although the official spokesman for the “Justice and Development Party” Omer Çelik considered that the use of violence in the Adana protests is “unacceptable”, the leader of the “National Movement” Party, which is a close ally of the ruling party, thanked the police for the use of violence, in a situation that does not coincide with The positions of personalities from the ruling party, which may mean the outbreak of disputes between the two allies at a later time, according to what a source in the “Future Party” told our reporters.
