Istanbul mayor under investigation by prosecutors office
Istanbul’s Chief Prosecutor has opened an investigation into Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu relating to comments made by the mayor regarding Istanbul Attorney General Akın Gürlek. The development follows last week’s arrest of Beşiktaş district mayor Rıza Akpolat, also a member of İmamoğlu’s opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP).
A statement from the chief prosecutor read:
“An investigation has been launched against Istanbul’s Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu on the charges of threatening and targeting people on duty in the fight against terrorism. The mayor made threatening remarks towards Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor Akın Gürlek and his family in a program he joined today.”
The remarks in question took place at a ‘Modern Law and the Politicization of the Judiciary’ panel that İmamoğlu joined in which he criticized........
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