The opposition in Turkey called for a mass demonstration to protest the jailing of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s main rival last week, as well as for a boycott of companies said to support the president.
The arrest has set off nightly demonstrations that have drawn hundreds of thousands of antigovernment protesters to the streets of Istanbul and other cities, prompting a government crackdown. More than 1,300 people have been arrested in recent days in connection with the demonstrations, the Interior Ministry said, including 11 journalists.
“There’s a lot of anger about what people feel is a shift toward autocracy,” Ben Hubbard, our Istanbul bureau chief, said.
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