Yuh Yuh and Bella Ciao in Turkey mosques, mock Erdogan
Erdogan lost long time ago the support among Turkish people, and especially among young people. Now it seems that people are not afraid to start mocking his autocratic, imperialistic, regime openly. Several mosques in İzmir started broadcasting not only the Italian partisans anthem ” Bella Ciao ” , but also other songs, as the Turkish media dokuz 8 haber and Turkish affairs (Telegram.me/TurkeyAffairs and turkeyaffairs.blogspot.com) revealed.
The following video from Turkish Affairs, indicates that an Izmir mosque played a very popular Turkish song of resistance.
This song was heard from the speakers of some Izmir mosques on 20 May, whilst in other mosques the resistance song ‘Bella Ciao’ was heard .
The song belongs to the very popular Selda Bağcan singer. It is called ‘yuh yuh’!
Selda Bağcan is a progressive Turkish singer. Her songs carried strong social criticism and solidarity with the poor and the working class, which made her especially popular among the left-wing activists and other sympathizers during the 1970s. After the 1980 Turkish coup, she was persecuted by the military rulers due to her political songs and was imprisoned three times between 1981 and 1984. Her passport was confiscated and held by the authorities. Thanks to international pressure from other artists, and WOMAD international arts festival, her passport was returned in 1987 and she immediately started a European tour. Her 1993 single Uğurlar Olsun (Farewell), that she composed for the memory of assassinated journalist Uğur Mumcu, was immensely popular and quickly became a symbol for the political resistance of the 1990s. She also expressed solidarity with the Gezi Park protests of 2013.
All these mean that her songs, alongside the song ‘Bella Ciao’ are symbols of resistance against the repressive regime of Erdogan.
Those events reagrding resistance songs playing from the Izmir mosques had been officially confirmed by the Izmir Mufti . According to dokuz 8 haber, the mufti (regional religious leader) declared that the incidents took place in mosques in Bornova and Bayraklı districts.
The repressive Erdogan dictatorship launched an investigation ‘against the person or persons who carried out the action and those who shared the news videos with social and praiseworthy expressions on the… social media accounts‘! The Prosecutor’s Office, who could not find the responsible of the incident detained… Banu Özdemir, who is the Deputy Head of the left-wing political party CHP in Izmir Province!
Reacting to this detention, CHP Izmir MP Murat Bakan said “… I find the reactions of the political power, as insincere, and hypocritical.
In reality, nearly nobody wants to live today in Erdogan’s Turkey. As the leading journalist Paul Antonopoulos mentioned in greekcitytimes.com a recent poll in Turkey revealed that ‘the majority of young people in Turkey between the ages of 15 and 25 want to leave and live abroad. Most interestingly is that even 47.3% of voters of the the ruling AKParty that Erdoğan belongs too said they would leave if they had better opportunities‘
It looks as if Erdogan tries to find any excuse to prosecute, jail, or torture his political opponents.
He can not stand satire, nor jokes. It seems that Turkish people live the last days of some kind of ‘ready to collapse dictatorship’.
After torturing or jailing people from the Kurdish party DHP, and commiting genocide against Kurds, now Erdogan regime tries to prosecute the left-wing party CHP, the second largest party, for…a song!
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