Six defendants held for about 16 months in the investigation into the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (İBB) appeared before a judge at the first hearing; five were released, while Fikri Murat Demir remains in detention.
Among those released was Çeşme Deputy Mayor Onur Gülin. The court ruled for the release of Arzu Can, Çağatay Takaoğlu and Engin Gönül, along with some other defendants.
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In the Çeşme Chief Public Prosecutor's Office investigation into Çeşme Municipality, nine people including Deputy Mayor Emre Can Durmaz were detained. Proceedings were started against 12 people in total.
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Seventeen people were detained in a probe into Esenyurt Municipality and 11 in a probe into Cesme Municipality. Those detained in Esenyurt include deputy mayors Yusuf Ulutaş and Ümit Ünal.
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Istanbul 33rd High Criminal Court heard defences on the 95th day of the İBB trial, in which 436 defendants, 53 of them in detention, are being tried. The court moved to the defence of former Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (İBB) bureaucrat Yasin Çağatay Seçkin.
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+2: Evrensel and Cumhuriyet +3: Halk TV, Evrensel and Cumhuriyet 46 people, including former Bayraklı Mayor Serdar Sandal, were detained in the Izmir Chief Public Prosecutor's Office's investigation into Bayraklı Municipality. The charges include bribery and rigging tenders.
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Izmir Metropolitan Mayor Cemil Tugay joined the AK Party; President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan pinned on his badge. After Tugay joined, Izmir Metropolitan Deputy Mayor Zafer Levent Yıldır resigned from his posts.
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+5: DW Türkçe, Independent Türkçe, The Guardian, RFI and Libération +6: Al-Monitor, DW Türkçe, Independent Türkçe, The Guardian, RFI and Libération In the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office's probe targeting Eyüpsultan Municipality, 13 people, including Mayor Mithat Bülent Özmen, were arrested. A total of 15 people were released under judicial control.
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Istanbul Governor Davut Gül said 2 people died in the collapsed 7-storey building in Maltepe and work was under way to reach 3 people under the rubble. Eleven people, including three children, were rescued from the rubble.
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