A Court has issued order of Preventive prison For Ekrem Imamoglumayor of Istanbul and political rival of the president of the country, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Imamoglu is being investigated for corruption and for association with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), declared as a terrorist organization by the Turkish government.
The order of formal arrest and preventive detention issued by the Istanbul Court concerns for now only corruption charges, given that the Terrorism accusation It is still pending evaluation.
Imamoglu He was arrested this Wednesday And since then he was in custody while, outside, thousands of people have taken to the streets of the main cities throughout the country to denounce their arrest. Both protesters and himself say it has been victim of political persecution Orchestrated by President Erdogan, who has denied any type of maneuver and defended the independence of the judiciary.
The mayor has spent a good part of the morning declaring before the investigating judge, From 03.30 hours to 05.30 (Peninsular time), according to the Turkish newspaper count Birgun. In the previous hours he received the visit of the president of his party, Özgür Özel, who before leaving the courts already predicted a possible formal arrest.
Hours before, the mayor denounced before the Prosecutor’s Office that the accusations of which he is the object come from secret statements of witnesses they are “completely falsedefamatory, invented, and represent an insult to dignity and honor “
The arrest warrant against the mayor was finally issued at 08.06 hours (peninsular time), as Imamoglu anticipated and the dome of his party. “He has prepared his family for the worst“, He let in this regard, Özel, leader of the Republican Party of the People (CHP),” but waits at least that this process causes a great awakening throughout the country. “
As regards corruption charges, one of the main crimes that are charged with the mayor is the creation of a criminal network to manipulate Illegal tender processes, something that Imamoglu rejected in a statement made on Friday before the Court because the position does not train or leave time to address this area, and insisted that he is the victim of a “judicial harassment” and a “political intervention” given its success in front of the Mayor’s Office, the Hurriyet newspaper collects.
The mayor also defended before the Court for accusations of collaboration with the PKK. The mayor has been accused of organizing a “Electoral collaboration“Illegal between the CHP and the Prokurdo Party for the equality and democracy of the peoples (DEM), enormously close to the PKK, in the local elections of March last year.
The formal arrest warrant against Imamoglu coincides with the presidential primaries of its CHP that are being held this Sunday and whose lists appear as a candidate. Here, Imamoglu faces another problem: on Tuesday, his alma mater, the University of Istanbul, He revoked his diploma by citing alleged violations of the regulations of the Higher Education Board.
This decision represents another additional varapal They must have university titles.
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