{"id":265936,"date":"2025-07-29T06:05:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T05:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/does-turkeys-judiciary-function-independently-or-as-a-tool-to-crush-erdogans-opposition-dw-news\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T06:05:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T05:05:02","slug":"does-turkeys-judiciary-function-independently-or-as-a-tool-to-crush-erdogans-opposition-dw-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/does-turkeys-judiciary-function-independently-or-as-a-tool-to-crush-erdogans-opposition-dw-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Turkey&#8217;s judiciary function independently or as a tool to crush Erdogan&#8217;s opposition? | DW News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i4.ytimg.com\/vi\/oFjD12gIQDY\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Does Turkey's judiciary function independently or as a tool to crush Erdogan's opposition? | DW News\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oFjD12gIQDY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Turkey&#8217;s main opposition party, the Republican People&#8217;s Party, or CHP,  is facing a widening crackdown. In March, Istanbul&#8217;s mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu, was arrested and suspended from office over corruption allegations. Imamoglu&#8217;s arrest triggered a wave of mass protests. Since then, more than a dozen other CHP mayors and hundreds of their staff have been detained or jailed over similar allegations. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his government reject claims that the arrests are politically motivated. <\/p>\n<p>Chapter Breakdown<br \/>\n0:00 DW Correspondent Julia Hahn reports on Turkey&#8217;s protest movement opposing a political crackdown on Erdogan&#8217;s rivals<br \/>\n4:45 Asli Aydintasbas, Analyst at the Brookings Institution, on public perception of Turkey&#8217;s institutions and Erdogan&#8217;s &#8216;pre-emptive&#8217; moves<\/p>\n<p>#imamo\u011flu #erdogan #turkey <\/p>\n<p>For more news go to: http:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/<\/p>\n<p>Follow DW on social media:<br \/>\n\u25baInstagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dwnews<br \/>\n\u25baTikTok: https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@dwnews<br \/>\n\u25baFacebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/deutschewellenews\/<br \/>\n\u25baTwitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/dwnews<\/p>\n<p>F\u00fcr Videos in deutscher Sprache besuchen Sie: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/dwdeutsch<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/deutschewelleenglish?sub_confirmation=1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey&#8217;s main opposition party, the Republican People&#8217;s Party, or CHP, is facing a widening crackdown. In March, Istanbul&#8217;s mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu, was arrested and suspended from office over corruption allegations. Imamoglu&#8217;s arrest triggered a wave of mass protests. Since then, more than a dozen other CHP mayors and hundreds of their staff have been detained [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":265937,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130889],"tags":[130609,130349,131904],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-265936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dw-news","tag-main","tag-opposition","tag-turkeys"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Does Turkey&#039;s judiciary function independently or as a tool to crush Erdogan&#039;s opposition? | DW News | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Does Turkey&#039;s judiciary function independently or as a tool to crush Erdogan&#039;s opposition? | DW News for free, here on News ISC. 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