Detained Ataşehir Mayor Onursal Adıgüzel condemned the detention of 13 people, including Deputy Mayor Murat Güneş, and described the operation as "theft of national will."
Those detained in the investigation by the Istanbul Anatolian Chief Public Prosecutor's Office include Murat Güneş, elected deputy mayor by the municipal council after Adıgüzel was suspended from duty. Adıgüzel pointed to the timing of the detentions and argued that the political power had seized municipalities by politicizing the judiciary.
