It is an ongoing thing. Last year the opposing presidential candidate was arrested.
Comment on Riot police enters Turkey's largest opposition party
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Could anyone share some context on this?
tlekiteki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
vagrancyand@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Turkey has been an explicit dictatorship since 2016, when Erdogan faked a coup against himself and has largely used that as an excuse to militarize against the government and populace.
This raid, like the raid the year before, and at least 100 other raids against opposing political parties since 2016, is just another blatant action by one of the most violent dictatorships in recent history.
Turkey is what people pretend Iran is.