"Hasan Mutlu, mayor of Istanbul's Bayrampasa district, was taken into custody early Saturday on charges including bribery, embezzlement, fraud and bid rigging by the municipality, according to state broadcaster, TRT Haber. The Istanbul police reportedly raided 72 locations, seizing documents and detaining Mutlu and several of his deputies. Mutlu denied the allegations on X, writing: I have served only Bayrampasa and you, my esteemed fellow citizens What has happened consists of political operations and baseless slanders."
"He is the latest in a line of more than a dozen mayors from the Republican People's party (CHP), along with hundreds of officials, to be arrested in recent months on corruption allegations, including Istanbul's mayor and leader of CHP, Ekrem Imamoglu. Imamoglu, who is regarded as president Recep Tayyip Erdogan's main rival, was arrested and detained in March, triggering widespread protests in Turkey."
Turkish authorities detained Hasan Mutlu, mayor of Istanbul's Bayrampasa district, and 47 officials on charges including bribery, embezzlement, fraud and municipal bid rigging. Police raided 72 locations, seized documents, and detained several deputies. Mutlu denied the allegations on X, calling them political operations and baseless slanders. The detentions follow arrests of more than a dozen Republican People's Party (CHP) mayors and hundreds of officials on corruption allegations. CHP leader and Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu was arrested in March, triggering widespread protests, and faces trial with prosecutors seeking up to eight years and nine months and a political ban.
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