3 mayors arrested in southern Turkey as part of crackdown on opposition
Istanbul (AP) -Adet, operated by the state, the mayors of three major cities in the south of Türkiye were arrested on Saturday. Mayor of Istanbul was imprisoned In March.
According to Anadolu Agency, Adiyaman Mayor Abdurrahman Tutder and Adana Municipality Chairman Zeydan Karalar under the chairmanship of Adana Municipality were detained in the early hours of the morning. Both are the main opposition Republican People’s Party or a member of the CHP.
Anatolia, Antalya’s CHP Mayor Muhittin Bocek, Antalya Chief Public Prosecutor was arrested with two other suspects in a separate bribe investigation.
Karalar was arrested in Istanbul and Tutder was arrested in the capital of Ankara. Tutder said he was taken to X to Istanbul.
Ten people, including Karalar and Tutdere, were arrested by the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor as a part of an investigation into the allegations of organized crime, bribery and bidding.
The details of the accusations against them were not released by the prosecutors, but the operation is following the arrest of the scores of the authorities from the municipalities controlled by the CHP in recent months.
Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoglu widely accepted the main challenger President Recep Tayyip Erdogan The 22 -year rule was imprisoned for allegations of corruption four months ago.
Türkiye’s third largest city and 137 municipal officials Izmir’s former CHP mayor He was detained at the beginning of this week As part of an investigation into the claim he claims. On Friday, the former municipality Tunc Soyer and 59 other people remained on trial that Soyer’s lawyer described as “a clearly unjust, illegal and political motivated decision”.
Again on Friday, the state operated by the state by the Mediterranean holiday city in the state of Antalya Manavgat’ın CHP Mayor and the other 34 people were allegedly allegedly corruption.
CHP officials met Arrest waves This year, many of them aim to neutralize Türkiye’s main opposition party. The government insists independently in prosecutors and the judicial law, but the arrest of Istanbul’s Imamoglu The largest street protests Türkiye has seen for more than ten years.
Imamoglu was nominated as the presidential candidate of his party after his prison sentence. Türkiye’s next election will be in 2028, but it may come earlier.
The printing comes a year after the CHP has gained significant gains in local elections. Adiyaman, who was seriously affected by the 2023 earthquake, was among the few cities, which were previously considered as castles for Erdogan to fall into opposition.
