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Ex-Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, his campaign leader and editor-in-chief of the opposition television station Tele1 were arrested
A spy investigation was opened against the Prime Minister of Istanbul, Ekrem Imamoglu, who was in opposition and imprisoned since March for allegations of corruption he rejects, informed the state press agency Anadolu, taken by AFP.
The Istanbul Prosecutor's Office announced this Friday the opening of two new investigations against the deposed Istanbul mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu, a candidate of the Social Democratic opposition for the upcoming presidential elections in Turkey and who has been in pretrial detention since March, accused of corruption. Imamoglu, who is being tried for several cases, is now facing accusations of espionage and the sale of citizens' data. In the opera…
His campaign director at the 2019 and 2024 auto-elections, Necari Özkan, and the director of the television station of the opposition Tele1, Merdan Yanardag, are also targets of the investigation by the Ministry of Public Affairs of Istanbul. This new investigation against Ekrem Imamoglu, considered the main opponent of the President of Turkey, Recep Tayip Erdogan, arises after a court of Istanbul which has today graduated from a case involving …
New investigation targets jailed İstanbul mayor, TV executive on allegations of espionage - Stockholm Center for Freedom
İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu and his campaign director, both of whom are in pretrial detention as part of another investigation, have also been implicated in an espionage probe that led to the detention of a TV executive on Friday, Turkish Minute reported. The new investigation came as İmamoğlu and his campaign director, Necati Özkan, have spent seven months behind bars as part of an investigation into the İstanbul Municipality on various charg…
New investigation targets jailed İstanbul mayor, TV executive on allegations of espionage - Turkish Minute
İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu and his campaign director, both of whom are in pretrial detention as part of another investigation, have also been implicated in an espionage probe that led to the detention of a TV executive on Friday, the Anka news agency reported.
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