### [2025-03-23](/feed/2025/03/23/index.md)

##### 2025 Turkish protests
# Several hundreds of thousands of anti-Erdoğan government protesters demonstrate outside of Istanbul City Hall, with the nationwide protests becoming the largest Turkish political demonstration movement in over a decade. 




### Sources:

1. [AP](https://apnews.com/article/turkey-mayor-jailed-istanbul-f962743f724f00a318f84ffaed7f58de)

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