Turkish opposition politician: Imamoglu rejects allegations after arrest | EUROtoday

The arrested Mayor of Istanbul and opposition politician Ekrem Imamoglu has sharply rejected the allegations in opposition to him. In a survey of a number of hours by the police, Imamoglu stated on Saturday, in response to the city corridor, the “unmoral and unfounded allegations” aimed to undermine his “reputation” and “credibility”.

The motion in opposition to him not solely broken Turkey’s worldwide status, but additionally the sensation of justice for the Turkish public and the belief within the financial system, the 53-year-old stated.

The political rival of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was interrogated within the morning for 5 hours for accusation of “supporting a terrorist organization”. The accusation refers to alleged connections imamoglus to the forbidden employees’ occasion in Kurdistan (PKK).

On Saturday, the mayor, who needs to compete for his occasion within the 2028 presidential election, was delivered to a courthouse in Istanbul for a survey by prosecutors, as a city corridor spokesman stated. The survey needs to be concerning the allegations of “supporting a terrorist organization” and allegations of corruption.

The police stopped the constructing with a big contingent. Imamoglus arrest has triggered the biggest opposition protests in Turkey because the so-called Gezi protests in 2013.