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CHP Leader Slams Sudden Change of Hearing Venue in İMamoğlu Trial as Politically Motivated - Turkish Minute
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Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu says his lawyers are boycotting a court hearing on Thursday. The decision to boycott comes after Imamoglu said the venue for the trial was illegally changed at the last minute. The hearing was originally scheduled for the Çağlayan court in central Istanbul, but was changed at the last minute to the Silivri prison, where the city mayor is currently being held. Imamoglu verbally abused a witness during the hearing of …
İmamoğlu, who was arrested on charges of being a ‘leader of a criminal organization for profit’, told the EU delegation that came to visit him, “I am being accused of secret witnesses” and hid 24 ‘open’ witnesses.
CHP leader slams sudden change of hearing venue in İmamoğlu trial as politically motivated - Turkish Minute
Main opposition leader Özgür Özel on Wednesday denounced the last-minute relocation of #İstanbul mayor ’s trial to a high-security courthouse, calling the move an attempt to sideline public scrutiny and intimidate dissent.
Some artists were banned from performing on the grounds that they supported Ekrem İmamoğlu and the protests in Saraçhane. While the issue was brought to the agenda of the Turkish Grand National Assembly, CHP Deputy Chairman Ulaş Karasu addressed the Minister of Culture and Tourism Mehmet Nuri Ersoy.
CHP Diyarbakır Deputy Sezgin Tanrıkulu made a statement regarding the hearing that CHP's presidential candidate Ekrem İmamoğlu, who is under arrest, did not attend.
The Expert Witness case that the arrested IMM President Ekrem İmamoğlu did not attend was postponed to September
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