Protesters in Turkey have taken to the streets against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan after the arrest of his rival and Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu. The emergence of Pokemon character Pikachu at a ...

"That fact that i didn’t even know there were protests going on in turkey until someone ran around protesting in a pikachu costume shows you the power of memes," one X user wrote Thursday.

A protester dressed as Pikachu, the Pokemon character ... our Social Security" were raised high across cities. Thousands turned out in Midtown Manhattan. In Portland, chants rang through downtown.