{"id":445923,"date":"2018-10-17T12:47:06","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T12:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/?p=445923"},"modified":"2018-10-17T13:33:06","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T13:33:06","slug":"opposition-organized-protest-embassy-turkey-visit-erdogan-chisinau-stop-dictatorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/opposition-organized-protest-embassy-turkey-visit-erdogan-chisinau-stop-dictatorship\/","title":{"rendered":"The opposition organized a protest at the Embassy of Turkey during the visit of Erdogan to Chisinau: “Stop the dictatorship”"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

Dozens of activists and sympathizers of the political parties PAS, PLDM and PPDA organized a protest on Wednesday, October 17, in front of the Turkish Embassy in Chisinau, entitled “Stop Dictatorship.”<\/em> The protesters opposed Erdogan’s visit to the Republic of Moldova, which will take place on October 17-18<\/strong>, and condemned the Moldovan authorities’ decision to expel the seven Turkish teachers from Horizon High School.<\/p>\n

“We are not protesting against the Turkish people, but towards Erdogan and the obscure understandings he has with the Plahotniuc-Dodon regime in Chisinau,” declared the PAS Vice-President Mihai Popsoi said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Chisinau will remain blocked for days due to the\u00a0Turkish President’s visit.<\/p>\n

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According to him, Moldovan law was prepared in advance so that “Turkish teachers’ extradition and kidnapping” could be possible.<\/p>\n

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According to Igor Dodon, who was disappointed by the way the press reflected the subject, “there were more ugly expulsions, on strictly political criteria.” EU Commissioner for Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, Johannes Hahn, urged Chisinau to respect the rule of law.<\/p>\n

Parliament Speaker Andrian Candu, whose son happened to quit the Moldovan-Turkish school right before the expulsion incident, called for parliamentary hearings in the case of the expulsion of seven Turkish citizens, directors and professors from the Moldovan-Turkish Orizont High School.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, the Turkish press writes<\/a> that Moldovan authorities detained and extradited Turkish citizens to their request from Ankara. Turkish detained citizens were working at Orizont High School, an educational\u00a0institution funded by cleric Fethullah Gulen, accused by Recep Erdogan of organizing the 2016 coup. Since then, Turkey has started a national and international repression of Gulen’s people.<\/p>\n

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