The Bolu 2nd Heavy Penal Court acquitted Bolu Mayor Tanju Özcan of aggravated sexual assault and deprivation of liberty. Özcan remains in detention on a charge of sexual abuse by coercion.
The court ruled that there was no conclusive and concrete material evidence that Tanju Özcan had committed the charged offense and acquitted him. Özcan attended the hearing via SEGBİS from Sincan Prison in Ankara. He had been arrested in February as part of a coercion investigation and suspended from office, and had been released last June.
