The Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality case with 436 defendants, 53 of whom are detained, continues on its 92nd day.

The IMM trial, with 436 defendants, 53 of whom are detained, including Elected Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (IMM) Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, continues on its 92nd day, being held in the new courtroom of the Marmara Closed Prison in Silivri.

At the last hearing held on Thursday last week, the court decided to release Sinan Sepetçi, Hasan Tahsin Sönmez, Turgay Tokdemir and Ceyhun Avşar, who were detained in detention.

While 27 of the 325 undetained defendants in the case remain to defend themselves, 29 people from the additional indictment against Ağaç AŞ are also planned to be heard this week.

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Here is what happened moment by moment in Silivri...

11.50 | THE HEARING HAS STARTED

The detained defendants entered the hall with applause. Lawyers who participated intensively in today's hearing, their colleagues who were taken from Çorlu to Kandıra prison at midnight, and İmamoğlu's detained lawyer Mehmet Pehlivan chanted the slogan "The defense did not remain silent, it will not remain silent" while entering the hall.

Before the hearing started, Pehlivan asked for a word from Çorlu regarding his transfer to Kandıra after the hearing ended last week. The presiding judge said that he would first take the defense and then give his floor.

Özge Bağdatlı, the sister of Emrah Bağdatlı, one of the fugitives in the file, came to the defendant's stand first.