A new threat to Erdogan: Gen Z
Young people are fed up with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Turkish high-schoolers and university students are too young to remember Turkey before Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in power since 2003. But when police came for the Turkish president’s top opponent, Ekrem Imamoglu, on March 19th, hundreds of thousands of them took to the streets. Now many of them are in prison too. Though down from an initial 301, an estimated 30 students and recent graduates are still awaiting trial in various Turkish prisons, with another 12 under house arrest.
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This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “Erdogan v Gen Z”
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