The Municipal Council in Istanbul, which is controlled by the opposition, was elected a temporary mayor on Wednesday to the city administration, after the arrest of Ekram Imamoglu while he was waiting for corruption accusations that he and his supporters deny politics.
IMamoglu’s arrest last week, President Tayeb’s largest political competitor, led to the largest anti -Make demonstrations in Türkiye for more than a decade and Group arrestAccording to hundreds of thousands of people, they came The opposition calls and took the streets in the protestsMostly peaceful.
His arrest was subjected to criticism by the Popular Republic As a non -democratic measure aimed at eliminating an electoral threat to Erdogan.
The government denies influencing the judiciary and remembering that the courts are independent. Erdogan, who dominated Turkish policy for more than two decades, classified protests throughout the country as a show, warned of legal consequences and asked the CP to stop the “provocation” of the Turks.
Istanbul Council, with 314 members, where the Republican People’s Party holds the majority, the electric party, Nuri Aslan, to manage the city with 177 votes, according to NTV. The temporary mayor will manage the city for the rest of the Imamoglu state while waiting for the trial.
The election of a temporary mayor prevents the government from nominating the intervention to the municipality administration, as it did in many other cities, especially in southeast of Kurdish, amid legal repression for months against the opposition.
In a speech in the Istanbul City Hall building in Sarashhan, the head of the Republican People’s Party, Ozel Ozil, who visited IMOOGLU in prison daily, said that the temporary mayor had prevented Erdogan’s desire to name an intervention in the municipality.
“The struggle will expand everywhere, but the leg will always be in Istanbul and the hand will always remain in Sarashhan,” Ozil said, adding that the resistance of the population frustrates what the opposition calls “to try to strike” against it.
The temporary mayor Aslan, who speaks alongside Ozil, said that the situation was temporarily entrusted.
“Our mayor, who is elected with Istanbul’s promises, will return as soon as possible,” he said.
