{"id":80792,"date":"2026-05-12T17:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T17:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/80792\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T17:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T17:14:11","slug":"12-jailed-in-bid-rigging-probe-targeting-istanbul-municipality-subsidiary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/80792\/","title":{"rendered":"12 jailed in bid-rigging probe targeting \u0130stanbul Municipality subsidiary"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A Turkish court has ordered the arrest of 12 people detained in a new operation targeting a subsidiary of the \u0130stanbul Municipality over allegations of bid rigging, Turkish Minute<\/a> reported, citing the Anka news agency.<\/p>\n

The suspects were among 30 people for whom detention warrants were\u00a0issued<\/a>\u00a0last week as part of a corruption investigation into the main opposition Republican People\u2019s Party (CHP)-run municipality. Eleven others who were referred to court on Monday were released under judicial supervision.<\/p>\n

The \u0130stanbul Chief Public Prosecutor\u2019s Office said the operation, launched on May 8, concerned allegations that public tenders were manipulated through A\u011fa\u00e7 ve Peyzaj A.\u015e., a subsidiary of the \u0130stanbul Municipality involved in landscaping.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors had issued detention warrants for 30 people, 29 of whom were initially taken into custody, while one suspect was abroad, according to earlier reports.<\/p>\n

Seven detainees had previously been referred to the courthouse. One was released directly by prosecutors. Five, including \u0130stanbul Municipality Deputy Secretary-General Oktay \u00d6zel, were released under judicial supervision, including a travel ban and a requirement to regularly sign in at a police station, while one person was put under house arrest.<\/p>\n

The remaining 23 detainees were later sent to the \u0130stanbul Courthouse in \u00c7a\u011flayan after undergoing medical checks. A criminal court of peace ordered the arrest of 12 suspects on Monday.<\/p>\n

Among those jailed were Derya Da\u011fdeviren, a niece of Dilek Kaya \u0130mamo\u011flu, the wife of imprisoned \u0130stanbul Mayor Ekrem \u0130mamo\u011flu, and Da\u011fdeviren\u2019s husband, Murat Da\u011fdeviren.<\/p>\n

Two of Dilek Kaya \u0130mamo\u011flu\u2019s brothers had previously been arrested as part of investigations targeting the municipality.<\/p>\n

Dilek Kaya \u0130mamo\u011flu criticized the arrests in a social media post, saying the couple\u2019s two children, aged 5 and 8, had been separated from both parents.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are facing an order that has become so devoid of conscience that it can tear two children, one 5 and the other 8, away from both their mother and father,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

She said those who signed off on decisions that would cause children to grow up without their parents should know that \u201cthis lawlessness\u201d would deeply wound the children\u2019s lives now and in the future.<\/p>\n

The operation comes as \u0130mamo\u011flu, a leading rival of President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan, remains imprisoned and is standing trial with 413 co-defendants in a major \u0130stanbul Municipality case. If convicted, he faces up to 2,430 years in prison.<\/p>\n

\u0130mamo\u011flu and his supporters accuse the government of using the judiciary to sideline him ahead of the next presidential election, scheduled for 2028. The government denies that the courts act under political influence.<\/p>\n

He has been in pretrial detention since March 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Turkish court has ordered the arrest of 12 people detained in a new operation targeting a subsidiary…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[42958,39159,2031,425,312,17279,41704,427,42959,26350,429,430,131,132,155],"class_list":{"0":"post-80792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-stockholm","8":"tag-agac-ve-peyzaj-a-s","9":"tag-corruption-allegations","10":"tag-crackdown-on-opposition","11":"tag-democracy","12":"tag-human-rights","13":"tag-ibb-trial","14":"tag-istanbul-metropolitan-municipality-ibb","15":"tag-justice","16":"tag-oktay-ozel","17":"tag-opposition-run-municipalities","18":"tag-oppression","19":"tag-republican-peoples-party-chp","20":"tag-stockholm","21":"tag-sweden","22":"tag-turkey"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116562733863019829","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80792","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=80792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}