US EditionIstanbul district mayor and 47 officials detained over corruption allegations in widening crackdown
Bayrampasa Mayor Hasan Mutlu and 47 officials face charges including bribery and fraud amid a year-long crackdown on opposition Republican People's Party municipalities.
- Turkish authorities detained Bayrampasa Mayor Hasan Mutlu and 47 others on corruption charges on Saturday in Istanbul amid a widening investigation.
- Authorities conducted predawn operations across 72 sites to collect evidence and arrest individuals suspected of embezzlement, bribery, and manipulating tenders.
- These measures take place amid an extended period of intensified government actions targeting the CHP and its municipalities, resulting in the arrest of hundreds of party members and widespread protests following Mayor Imamoglu’s detention.
- Hasan Mutlu denied wrongdoing, calling the probe a 'political operation based on unfounded slander' and pledged to overcome these acts with Bayrampasa residents.
- A court ruling on Monday could annul CHP’s 2023 Congress and potentially remove its leader, intensifying legal pressure amid government claims of judicial independence.
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In Turkey, the judiciary is tightening up around the main opposition party, the Republican People's Party (CPP). Arrests in its ranks have increased in recent months as the formation prepares to face a capital hearing on Monday, 15 September, which could lead to the dismissal of all its current leadership. It is in this context that a prosecutor ordered the arrest of 48 members of a municipality in Istanbul led by the HPC on Saturday, 13 Septemb…
Mutlu called the investigation "a political operation based on unfounded slander. He belongs to the largest opposition party CHP, against which the Erdoğan government has been taking action for about a year.
Turkey: Erdogan's police arrest opposition mayor Hasan Mutlu, dozens officials in corruption probe
Turkish authorities have detained Hasan Mutlu, the mayor of Istanbul’s Bayrampaşa district, along with 47 officials in a corruption probe, as part of a wider crackdown on the opposition.
Istanbul district mayor Mutlu arrested amid CHP crackdown
Hasan Mutlu, the head of Istanbul's Bayrampasa district, will be facing corruption charges. Mutlu is the latest in the growing line of politicians from the CHP opposition party to be arrested by the Turkish authorities.
Istanbul district mayor, 47 officials detained over corruption allegations in widening crackdown
More than a dozen mayors from the main opposition Republican People's Party, or CHP, and hundreds of municipal officials have been arrested in recent months for alleged corruption, including Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu.
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