Quickly, it became clear that İmamoğlu's arrest had merely been the spark, with deep seated grievances bubbling under the surface.

Everyone’s faces were bowed down, the children glanced over with tears in their eyes. “Where have they gone?”

America is turning back to the days of the wild west. Little or no state support or institutions, it’s every man or woman for themselves.

There is sense that disasters are befalling the country on an almost weekly basis, and nothing is happening to stop them. It is as if this is the new identity of the people, removing  any positive characteristic  from their personality.