beytullah katırcıoğlu

[Taylor Smith @itstaylorsmith9]

a lot of you found me because of what i wrote about Turkey. about how a dictatorship gets built without a single tank in the streets. i need you to read what i found next.

i've been writing about Turkey for years and i still wasn't prepared for what i found when i looked south.

most people think the İmamoğlu story ends in Silivri prison.

it doesn't. it just moved.

let me explain.

Ekrem İmamoğlu beat Erdoğan twice. won Istanbul. proved the man was actually beatable. so Erdoğan did what he always does when the courts can't be avoided: he made sure the courts could always be avoided.

young loyalist judges. surgical prosecutions. no tanks. no coup. just paperwork that destroys a man's life while everyone is looking somewhere else.

İmamoğlu is in a cell right now. his party was handed back to a puppet nobody voted for. and the democratic will of millions of Turkish citizens was quietly shredded by a man who understood one thing very clearly:

you don't need to win the fight. you just need to make sure your opponent never gets to show up for it.

that method is now being exported.

800 kilometers away, in Tirana, a man named Erion Veliaj has been sitting in pre-trial detention since February 2025. no conviction. no trial. over 470 days. his lawyers still haven't been given full access to the case files. he stood in a glass cage in a courtroom.

Veliaj is the mayor of Tirana. three times elected. 60 percent of the vote in his last race. transformed an entire capital city. one of the most popular politicians in the Balkans.

Edi Rama, the Albanian prime minister, looked at what Erdoğan did to İmamoğlu and apparently took notes.

and now here is the part that i can't stop thinking about.

İmamoğlu, from his prison cell in Silivri, wrote a personal letter to Veliaj.

two men. two cells. two countries. one method.

"the fight for democracy in one country is a fight for democracy everywhere," İmamoğlu wrote.

he recognized it immediately. because he's living it.

and from that same cell he said something else that nobody should be allowed to forget:

"we must protect the rule of law and the democratic mandate of elected local authorities at all costs."

a man in prison. still leading. still fighting. still thinking about everyone else.

the Council of Europe's own Venice Commission put it in writing last October: using pre-trial detention against sitting mayors constitutes a serious risk to democratic governance, and when applied indefinitely, it effectively disenfranchises citizens by removing their chosen representatives without due process.

both Turkey and Albania read that report. both ignored it.

forty mayors across the Balkans signed a joint letter demanding their release. they called it what it is: detention used not as justice, but as political incapacitation.

not surprisingly it didn’t move anyone in Tirana or Ankara, but what about the European Commission, the EU, UK and the US?

now here is where the story splits in a way that should make every single person in Europe deeply uncomfortable.

when Erdoğan does this, Europe lectures Turkey. resolutions. stern statements. talk of values and rule of law.

when Rama does this, Brussels fast-tracks Albania toward EU membership. target date 2030. they are literally preparing to hand this man the keys to the European club while his most popular political opponent sits in a cell without a trial.

Turkey is being punished for the method.

Albania is being rewarded for using it.

Veliaj knows this. that's why İmamoğlu wrote to him from prison. not as a courtesy. as a recognition. you are part of the same fight.

the millions of Turkish people who took to the streets for İmamoğlu weren't just fighting for Istanbul. they were fighting for every city where a mayor gets thrown in a cell for being too popular. they just didn't know it yet.

they do now.

[Sn. Münaza Kayserilioğlu @munazabey]

Ekrem İmamoğlu’na rüşvet verdiğini müteahhitler değil, yargının ispatlaması gerekiyor. Bunun da hukuktaki yolu resmi, belgeli, somut kanıt.

Verdim, duydum, hissettim palavralarıyla kimseyi suç örgütü lideri ilan edemezsiniz.

[Zet Lorento @ZetLorento]

🚨⚠️1- Adınız, telefon numaranız veya TC kimlik numaranız Google’da çıkıyor olabilir! Bu tweet serisinde özel bilgilerinizin Google’dan nasıl kaldırılacağını anlatıyorum.

Kişisel bilgilerinizi Google aramalarından silmenin ve temizlemenin legal/resmi yolları:

[beytullah katırcıoğlu @kbeytullah52]

@mezamorta1 @Tuncay_Orta Güçlü olana cevap verecek cesaretiniz yok ama zayıfı ezmek için yarışıyosunuz...

[beytullah katırcıoğlu @kbeytullah52]

@mezamorta1 @Tuncay_Orta Bildiğin tek orjinal kelime demografi ve etnisite galiba, biraz daha çalış başka kelimeler de var. İyi geceler

[beytullah katırcıoğlu @kbeytullah52]

@mezamorta1 @Tuncay_Orta Akpmhp'ye niye laf edemiyosunuz? Soru basit?

[Fatma Kaplan Hürriyet @fatmakaplan]

TURGUT KOÇ, İZMİT BELEDİYESİ SORUŞTURMASINDAN DEĞİL, AYLAR ÖNCE GERÇEKLEŞEN FUHUŞ VE FUHŞA ARACILIK ETMEK SUÇUNDAN DOLAYI TUTUKLANMIŞTI

Bugün o tahliye edilirken, Fatma Başkanımız ise hâlâ o ismin ifadeleriyle Silivri’de tutuluyor.

[beytullah katırcıoğlu @kbeytullah52]

@mezamorta1 @Tuncay_Orta Siz kafayı yemişsiniz, ülkeyi 25 yıldır bir kişi yönetiyo tüm dayağı öö yiyo. Götünüz yiyosa akpmhp'ye niye laf etmiyosunuz, yemiyo mu?

[beytullah katırcıoğlu @kbeytullah52]

@mezamorta1 @Tuncay_Orta Rte de senin bölgeden bu da mı tesadüf

[beytullah katırcıoğlu @kbeytullah52]

@chandsmittus Anadilin hak olmasının neresi yanlış?

[beytullah katırcıoğlu @kbeytullah52]

@mezamorta1 @Tuncay_Orta Zavallısınız, küfür edecek ne var burdada böyle yazıyosun? küfür etmeden kendini ifade edecek kelime haznen yokmu? Hem niye yüzyüze gelelim? Saydığım insanların o bölgeden olması tesadüfmü dedim sadece?

[beytullah katırcıoğlu @kbeytullah52]

@SORARTIK @YusufElmas @eczozgurozel Ne zaman kürtçe eğitim dili olacak dedi, zeka kıtlığı mı var sizde? Ana dil öğrenimi başka eğitim dili başka

[beytullah katırcıoğlu @kbeytullah52]

@YusufElmas Senin başka işin yokmu birader sürekli öö ile uğraşıyosun, defol git zafer partisine. Eğer sizin gibi düşünseydi zafer partisine giderdi zaten

[beytullah katırcıoğlu @kbeytullah52]

@mezamorta1 @Tuncay_Orta Şevki yılmaz, kadir mısırlıoğlu, cübbeli gibi isimler hangi bölgeden

[beytullah katırcıoğlu @kbeytullah52]

@manyakanket61 Anladım

[beytullah katırcıoğlu @kbeytullah52]

@umutsuzjonturk1 Olum herkes sizin gibi rende aparatlığı yapmıyo, siyaset yapmaya çalışıyo. Yallah zafer partisine

[beytullah katırcıoğlu @kbeytullah52]

@manyakanket61 Bu anlamı yok yani öylemi?

[beytullah katırcıoğlu @kbeytullah52]

@mezamorta1 @Tuncay_Orta Ne kadar dinci hoca, ayrılıkçı, Türk düşmanı varsa o bölgeden çıkıyo, bu bir tesadüf olabilir mi?

[beytullah katırcıoğlu @kbeytullah52]

@mezamorta1 @Tuncay_Orta Of'dakiler genelde rum oluyor galiba