The Turkish authorities arrested this morning Ahmet Ozer, the mayor of Esenyurt, the largest municipality in the metropolitan region of Istanbul, on the charge that there are “strong suspicions of committing a criminal act” against him as a member of the Kurdish organization PKK. Ahmet Ozer was elected mayor of Esenyurt in the elections of March 31 this year by the main opposition Kemalist Republican People’s Party (CHP), while in the two years 2022-23 he was an adviser to the mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem Imamoglu. According to the indictment, Ahmet Ozer is a member of a terrorist organization and in the last ten years had communicated 694 times with members of the PKK, of which 14 times with one of the leaders of the organization and wanted for terrorism, Remzi Kartal. Ozer’s arrest took place at 6:00 in the morning and was followed by a police search of the municipality, his home and his business. Reacting to Ozer’s arrest, CHP chairman Özgür Ozel spoke of an unjust arrest on baseless charges and linked the incident to the […]
Source: News Beast
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