Because it just doesnt add up nor even make sense. I would have agreed with everything you stated if the target of the arrest was Mansur Yavas and not ImamogluDude, why are you wasting your time with posting fabricated lies in here... Nobody here reads them or believes them. Even the AKP supporters (at least those with working brain cells and some honestly left in their souls) know that this arrest is nothing but farce.
The whole world knows that Erdogan and AKP are afraid... They are scared because their time is running out and they can't ever beat Imamoglu in an election. And they know it very well.
According to recent polls, the difference between Erdogan and Imamoglu is ranging from 5-15%. Considering that the elections are 4 years away, such a gap can be easily bridged especially when it is well-known how the AKP overspends to buy voters. Moreover, I would like to remind you that Erdogan won his previous election even though the country experienced an earthquake that resulted in the deaths of more than 50k citizens just 2-3 months before the elections. Moreover unlike the previous election, the AKP is trying to make peace with the DEM a**holes and if it succeeds then it means around 8% of the votes would be in the bag. With simple approximation; adding AKP's (around 30%) With MHP's (around 8%) and DEM's (around 9%) equals around 47% while the CHP only has a stable base of 29-32%. This means that by doing nothing, Erdo would win the next election one way pr the other
In addition to that, Imamoglu is the weakest candidate of the 2 possible competitors from the CHP's roster; if we went with your theory and that it is nothing more than oppression out of fear, then the ideal choice is to either jail both Imamoglu and Mansur Yavas or at the very least Yavas alone since he is someone that is both liked by the Right and the Left as well as being more "CLEAN" than Imamoglu at the very least
Thus, it doesnt make sense to jail the weaker candidate and honestly the most incompetent among the two while keeping the strongest alive and even giving him a boost
What I want to say is that Erdogan isnt an idiot nor are his advisors and if he wanted to, there would be a plethora of ways that would provide better results than the one being implemented rn. That is why I believe that Erdogan/police does actually have some serious evidence against Imamoglu and his circle and that is why Erdogan went ahead with Imamoglu's arrest probably to try and take Istanbul from the CHP's clutches
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