Turkish citizen detained for wearing ‘justice’ t-shirt during Erdoğan rally

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A Turkish citizen with the initials Y.B. on March 20 was detained in Isparta province for trying to attend President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s local election rally with a t-shirt reading “No justice for pensioners, no vote.”

Accordingly, the citizen, who is the Isparta representative of the Justice in Retirement Association, was first prevented from entering the rally area and then detained. Moreover, an investigation was launched against the citizen over “insulting the President,” the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Isparta deputy Hikmet Yalım Halıcı announced.

Halıcı criticized the move and said, “First they destroyed justice in Turkey, now they cannot even tolerate the word 'justice'.”

“Even asking for rights has become an insult to Erdoğan. This does not happen even in dictatorships! It can only happen in George Orwell's books or in Turkey. As long as the AKP remains in power, demanding justice will remain a crime,” Halıcı said.

“It was not enough that they left the people poor, now they have left them without justice,” he added.

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