Hearings continued in the trial of 414 defendants, including Ekrem İmamoğlu; a company owner told Beylikdüzü Mayor Mehmet Murat Çalık's question, "There is no bribery situation." The number of detained defendants was given differently by two sources, as 50 and 51.
Source spectrumStateStatePro-governmentPro-govIndependentIndep.OppositionOpp.ForeignForeignHürriyet: İBB'ye yönelik 'Yolsuzluk' davasında 82’nci duruşma2nd to publish45 citations todayMedyascope: İBB davasında 2. duruşmada 18. gün: “Rüşvet durumu yok”1st to publish
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Independent press Medyascope highlights that this was the 18th day of the second hearing, the testimony of non-detained defendants, and the company owner's remark "There is no bribery situation."
Pro-government press Hürriyet counts the hearing as the 82nd session and reports in detail the list of charges brought against İmamoğlu in the indictment.
At the 82nd hearing of the İBB case, defendants not under arrest presented their defense; Babacan denied the bribery allegation and Karakaya denied claims that he had organized the tenders himself. In a separate development, the lawyer for İPA Head Buğra Gökçe requested release, stating that the maximum detention period had expired.
Source spectrumStateStatePro-governmentPro-govIndependentIndep.OppositionOpp.ForeignForeignHürriyet: İBB'ye yönelik 'Yolsuzluk' davasında 82’nci duruşma8th to publish45 citations todaySabah: "İmamoğlu çıkar amaçlı suç örgütü" davasının 82. duruşması başladı2nd to publish25 citations todayDaily Sabah: Businesspeople reveal bribery scheme at Istanbul municipality1st to publish1 citation todayMedyascope: İBB davasında 2. duruşmada 18. gün: “Rüşvet durumu yok”5th to publishBirGün: Buğra Gökce için azami tutukluluk süresi doldu: "Serbest bırakılmalı"6th to publish39 citations todayYeniçağ: Buğra Gökçe’nin avukatından yeni talep: Süre doldu, serbest kalmalı7th to publish54 citations todayEvrensel: İmamoğlu'ndan İBB davası çıkışı: "Bu zulmün bir sonucu olacak"3rd to publish30 citations todayIndependent Türkçe: İBB davasında 82.gün4th to publish5 citations today
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Pro-government press Sabah and Hürriyet highlighted the content of the indictment, reporting that İmamoğlu was portrayed as the "leader of the organization," that an assessment of approximately 160 billion lira in public damages related to 143 acts had been made, and conveyed the sentences sought.
Opposition-leaning and independent press Medyascope, Independent Türkçe, BirGün and Yeniçağ highlighted the defendants' denials of the charges and the statement "there is no bribery situation," and also reported on the request for release by Buğra Gökçe's lawyer on grounds that the maximum detention period had expired.