{"id":78084,"date":"2026-05-08T17:16:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T17:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/78084\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T17:16:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T17:16:29","slug":"turkish-police-detain-29-in-istanbul-municipality-corruption-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/78084\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish police detain 29 in \u0130stanbul municipality corruption probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/stockholmcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IBB-headquarters-2.jpg\" data-caption=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"405\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- alt=\"\" title=\"I\u0307BB headquarters\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IBB-headquarters-2-696x405.jpg\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"405\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IBB-headquarters-2-696x405.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"I\u0307BB headquarters\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Turkish police on Friday detained 29 people as part of an investigation into corruption allegations at the opposition-run \u0130stanbul Metropolitan Municipality, <a href=\"https:\/\/turkishminute.com\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/turkishminute.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Turkish Minute <\/a>reported, citing Agence France-Presse.<\/p>\n<p>\u0130stanbul Mayor Ekrem \u0130mamo\u011flu, a key rival of President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan, has been imprisoned for over a year and is accused of running a large criminal network.<\/p>\n<p>\u0130mamo\u011flu is currently on trial along with 413 co-defendants. If convicted, he faces 2,430 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have launched an investigation into the \u201cactivities of a criminal organization established under the leadership of Ekrem \u0130mamo\u011flu,\u201d the state-run Anadolu news agency reported, citing a statement from the \u0130stanbul Chief Public Prosecutor\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors issued detention warrants for 30 suspects. Twenty-nine were taken into custody, while one is abroad, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects are accused of manipulating public tenders through a municipal subsidiary.<\/p>\n<p>\u0130mamo\u011flu and his supporters accuse the Turkish government of seeking to prevent him from challenging President Erdo\u011fan in the next presidential election, scheduled for 2028.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Turkish police on Friday detained 29 people as part of an investigation into corruption allegations at the opposition-run&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[2031,425,312,17279,1181,41704,26350,429,430,131,132,155],"class_list":{"0":"post-78084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-stockholm","8":"tag-crackdown-on-opposition","9":"tag-democracy","10":"tag-human-rights","11":"tag-ibb-trial","12":"tag-istanbul-mayor-ekrem-imamoglu","13":"tag-istanbul-metropolitan-municipality-ibb","14":"tag-opposition-run-municipalities","15":"tag-oppression","16":"tag-republican-peoples-party-chp","17":"tag-stockholm","18":"tag-sweden","19":"tag-turkey"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116540092930837994","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}