The Turks descend into the street for the 6th consecutive day, and the repression accentuated Monday morning, after the imprisonment yesterday (March 23, 2025) of the mayor of Istanbul Ekrem Imamoglu.
Türkiye:
Monday morning (March 24, 2025), at least eight journalists were arrested. The mayor ofIstanbul Ekrem Imamoglu spent his first night in prison. The main opponent of Recep Tayyip Erdogan had been removed from his duties in the wake of his incarceration for corruption yesterday. In front of the town hall of Istanbul on Sunday evening, the call to the rally was massively followed. For the opposition, the challenge is to maintain pressure on President Erdoğan – with a watchword: “Korkma”, “is not afraid” … This is what Güney Efe, 21 -year -old student, had written on his sign … A testimony collected by Anne Andlauer.
What impact can the inner situation have on relations with the European Unionin the context of the war in Ukraine notably ? On this question, among others, Dorothée Schmid’s analysis, Director of the Türkiye – Middle East program at the French Institute for International Relations.
War in Ukraine:
Last week, Ukraine and Russia each exchanged 175 prisoners of war. Some Ukrainian soldiers found freedom after more than two years in prison. The fate of these prisoners who are counted in the thousands is also part of a full-fledged component in the ceasefire Volodymyr Zelensky.
Taras, 39, was released thanks to one of these exchanges in June 2024. This former Ukrainian soldier spent 20 months in Russia in different prisons. He entrusted his story to the Southry-Le Due Cerise.
Environment :
Like the climate changethere pollution Plastic is a planetary crisis. According to some scientists by 2050 the amount of plastics present in the oceans will be greater than that of fish. There France The third United Nations conference on the ocean will welcome next June in Nice. And all over the country, the Company mobilizes. In Brittany, In Brest, the Oceanopolis Acts bottom organizes a waste collection each year to raise awareness among the inhabitants. The next one takes place on Saturday March 29, Olivier Favier met its organizers.
Plastic also generates microplastics, These particles present everywhere: in the water that we drink, in our foodin cosmetics … In Brussels, First legislation on the subject entered into force in 2023, but The discussions resumed to try to adopt a new text, more restrictive. Elena Louazon.