Exclusive: Ex-Turkish President Gül probed over jailed İmamoğlu |
Exclusive reporting by Medyascope correspondent Furkan Karabay indicates that former Turkish President Abdullah Gül was accused by an anonymous witness in the sprawling investigation targeting imprisoned Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu and the opposition-controlled Istanbul municipality.
Gül served as president of Turkey from 2007 to 2014 as a member of current President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP).
Although the accusations against Gül did not make it into the final version of the indictment, the former president was accused of shady links to the Istanbul municipality during the investigation process.
The indictment targeting the Istanbul municipality and İmamoğlu was released in early November and requests up to a 2353 year prison sentence for the Istanbul mayor.
An anonymous witness who mentioned Gül is referred to using the code name of ‘Ceviz’, or ‘walnut’ in Turkish.
An anonymous witness........