Burhanettin Bulut, a senior leader of Turkey’s main opposition party CHP, accused President Erdogan’s government of fabricating enemies and conducting politically motivated crackdowns following the opposition’s electoral defeat, exemplified by the recent detention of Istanbul’s mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu. He criticized the government’s strategy of polarization and arrests as a means to distract from societal issues like poverty and injustice, asserting that such actions threaten Turkey’s democratic foundations.
