Turkey orders detention of Istanbul district mayor, others in corruption probe, state media says

Riot constabulary clasp their shields arsenic a supporter of Turkey's main absorption Republican People's Party (CHP) shouts slogans during a objection extracurricular the party's office successful Istanbul, Monday, Sept 8. [AP]

A Turkish authoritative ordered the detention of 48 suspects, including the politician of Istanbul’s opposition-run Bayrampasa district, arsenic portion of a corruption investigation, state broadcaster TRT Haber said connected Saturday.

The constabulary carried retired aboriginal greeting raids astatine 72 locations to prehend documents and detain suspects connected charges including embezzlement, bribery, and tender rigging, according to TRT Haber.

In a station connected X, Bayrampasa Mayor Hasan Mutlu, from the main absorption Republican People’s Party (CHP), said helium had thing to fell and called the probe “a governmental cognition based connected unfounded slander.”

The detentions travel amidst a astir year-long crackdown connected the CHP and CHP-run municipalities, successful which hundreds of enactment members person been arrested and jailed.

A tribunal ruling owed connected Monday could region the person of the CHP successful a lawsuit widely seen arsenic a δοκιμή of the country’s fragile equilibrium betwixt antiauthoritarian institutions and centralised power, expanding the ineligible unit connected the party. [Reuters]