Turkey protests: More than 1,000 people arrested in 5 days
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.2 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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More than 1,000 people have been detained in Turkey during 5 days of protests about the arrest of President Erdogan's main rival, the mayor of Istanbul. Also: How do elite athletes cope with fasting during Ramadan?
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:05.4 | I'm Jean-Aat Julia and 14 hours GMT on Monday the 24th of March. These are our main stories. |
| 0:11.6 | More demonstrators and journalists are arrested in Turkey as the authorities say they've detained |
| 0:17.2 | well over a thousand people in the past five days of protests. Talks between US and |
| 0:23.2 | Russian negotiators are underway in Saudi Arabia as Donald Trump pushes for a swift end to the war in |
| 0:29.0 | Ukraine. Israel intensifies its bombardment of Gaza. Palestinian health officials say at least |
| 0:35.6 | 60 people have been killed in the renewed assault. |
| 0:40.8 | Also in this podcast, |
| 0:42.3 | Why this comic song has caused a stir about freedom of speech in India. |
| 0:56.5 | We start in Turkey, where in less than a week, |
| 0:59.3 | the man seen as a strongest challenger to President Erdogan's |
| 1:02.4 | decades-long dominance of Turkish politics, |
| 1:05.8 | Ekram Imammolu has been arrested, interrogated, jailed, |
| 1:10.3 | and stripped of his position as mayor of Istanbul, |
| 1:13.5 | sparking some of the biggest protests Turkey has seen in more than a decade. |
| 1:18.2 | Despite being charged with corruption, he has now officially been nominated as a presidential |
| 1:22.9 | candidate by the opposition CHP party. |
| 1:26.5 | Mr. Imamulu says the charges against him are politically motivated. |
| 1:31.4 | A ban on protests failed to deter Turks from taking to the streets in large numbers for a fifth night running |
| 1:37.8 | to voice their fears for the future of their democracy. |
| 1:41.6 | Among them, this woman in Istanbul. |
| 1:45.0 | There is no such thing as justice in the Republic of Turkey. Absolutely not. I don't believe it. |
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