- Title: Huge crowd rallies in Istanbul against Turkey's post-coup crackdown
- Date: 9th July 2017
- Summary: ISTANBUL, TURKEY (JULY 9, 2017) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF ARMED POLICE SPECIAL FORCES STANDING ALONG STREET AHEAD OF PEOPLE'S REPUBLICAN PARTY (CHP) CHAIRMAN KEMAL KILICDAROGLU MARCH, MARCHERS PASSING BY WITH FLAGS RIOT POLICE STANDING GUARD KILICDAROGLU CARRYING SIGN READING (Turkish): "JUSTICE" RIOT POLICE CLEARING STREET JOURNALISTS WALKING AHEAD OF KILICDAROGLU MARCHING WITH "JUSTICE" SIGN VARIOUS OF AERIAL VIEW OF STREET WITH RIOT POLICE, JOURNALISTS AND KILICDAROGLU MARCHING KILICDAROGLU MARCHING WITH "JUSTICE" SIGN
- Embargoed: 23rd July 2017 19:25
- Keywords: Turkey march justice march rally CHP party oposition party Kemal Kilicdaroglu
- Location: ISTANBUL, TURKEY
- City: ISTANBUL, TURKEY
- Country: Turkey
- Topics: Government/Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA0016OZWKSN
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text:Turkey's main opposition leader told a huge protest rally on Sunday (July 9) that the country was living under dictatorship and pledged to keep challenging the crackdown launched by the authorities after last year's failed military coup.
Addressing hundreds of thousands of people waving Turkish flags and banners demanding justice, Kemal Kilicdaroglu said his 25-day march from Ankara to Istanbul - culminating in Sunday's rally in Istanbul - was the first stage of a long campaign.
He called on the government to lift a state of emergency enforced after the abortive July 2016 coup, release scores of journalists from prison and restore the independence of Turkey's courts.
Kilicdaroglu's protest march drew only modest support in its early days, but as more people joined him it grew into the biggest protest yet against the year-long, post-coup crackdown launched by Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan's ruling AK Party. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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