On June 19, the imprisonment of the mayor of Constantinople, was also arrested by his lawyer, Mehmet Pechlivan, was arrested. The category against him? Acted “on behalf of a criminal organization”.
“They were arrested on accusing that I am a member of a criminal organization. The only organizations in which I am a member are the Union of Turkish Bar Associations and the Constantinople Bar Association. This is a judicial conspiracy. The only reason, as everyone knows, about my arrest is that I am the lawyer of Ekrem Iimoglu. Their aim is to intimidate, silence and isolate, “was Pchlivan’s post on the X platform.
Choosing the moment of conception is not considered accidental. It reinforces the “pounding” of the mayor of the city and the Republican People’s Party (), a few days before the trial, on June 30, at the expense of his twelve top executives for “violating the electoral law” – including Imamoglou and Mayor.
How did the case go there?
The case arose for the acquisition of votes (with party and professional rewards) at the 38th Congress of the Party in 2023 in order to be exploited by Kemal Kilitzdaroglu, to be elected by his new president by Ozgur Ozel.
The case is expected to bring about cataclysmic changes to the party that can first lead to the chartered of current President Ozel and the total reinstatement of outward president Kilitzdaroglou, and secondary to the split of the CHP.
Recall that Imamoglou has been in custody for three months for another case involving corruption, blackmail, bribery, black money laundering and terrorism support.
‘The trial is set up’
Pro -government commentators consider Kilitzdaroglu’s return to the leadership of the party because “the trial is set up, in direct consultation between Kilitzdaroglu and the Erdogan government”, the “Vima” source of the party wishes to maintain. At the same time, he denies that the Ozel -Imamoglu team is preparing a new party (there have been, noted, reports on the rental of offices by the new party).
“While the Israeli-Iranian front has pulled all the lights on it, the Erdogan government in Turkey with two judicial cases is trying to redesign the domestic political scene,” the CHP source adds. “The first concerns the cancellation of the 38th party conference.”
In the event that Alevitis returns, formerly the president of the Chp leadership, the majority of party members, now leaning in favor of the Ozel -Imoglou camp.
“However, in a country where political power controls the judiciary, it is clear that legal measures are already being considered to prevent the scenario of a new conference. The fact, however, that the trial and its consequences are recycled in the media and in the party circles, weakens the CHP. “
Persecutions against Imamoglou
The second case-the “siege ram” of the government against the major opposition is, having a last victim of his lawyer. The plethora of pipelines against the mayor makes their outcome completely unpredictable, except for the ominous. If the political atmosphere in Turkey does not change, the removal of the prisoner of the major opposition leader from politics will be locked.
Unfortunately, the war between Israel and Iran is disorienting and providing, at least for the time being, new opportunities for government authoritarianism, “the source from the CHP summarizes.
“Erdogan wants Ozel and the CHP to surrender,” he evaluates the data after the arrest of Imamoglou’s lawyer, the Turkish analyst on the Medyascope Network Rusen Chakir, seeing the cluster around the once -powerful party.
The pro -government, however, while the eyes of the Turkish government are focused on Israel’s ambitions in the Middle East, warn of “traitors”. New arrests are probably heralded in the opposition.
Meanwhile, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, highlighted by internal developments powerful within Turkey, according to reports in the Turkish press talked twice with Donald Trump, within 24 hours after the start of Israeli-Iranian hostilities. He also had two talks with Iran’s president, Massoud Pezkian and, finally, a telephone conversation about developments in Iran with Vladimir Putin.
