113th day of resistance in Turkey

Concur.

No, he was a fascist complicit in the armenian genocide.

I had the same question.

If we assume they are resisting the national government, I wish them the best. But are they?

Are they having any success or positive effect?

My (likely poor) outsider's understanding is this is all about Ekrem Imamoglu - the twice-elected mayor of Istanbul and the CHP's candidate for the next presidential election (CHP is the chief opposition political party against Erdogan's AKP which has been in power 20+ years). From what I've heard he's quite popular in Istanbul and with the youth in Turkey. He represents the best chance against Erdogan in quite a long time. And he was arrested in March on charges of corruption that seem quite trumped up.

There's more attached to it than that. He's accused of aiding the PKK (Kurdish independence militant group). There's also the petty move of revoking his degree from the 1980s which he needs in order to run for president. He also has a long running charge of "insulting a public official" which he's appealing but, if convicted, he will be banned from political office and given a custodial sentence of a couple of years. The CHP is calling this a kind of silent coup and has been organising protests ever since. The Turkish state has responded with police crackdowns, thousands of arrests and social media blackouts to block reporting on it.