
Bakırköy Chief Public Prosecutor's Office evaluated the statements used by İmamoğlu in his defense at the hearing within the scope of 'public insult to public officials due to their duties'.
Bakırköy Chief Public Prosecutor's Office launched an ex officio investigation against Ekrem İmamoğlu on the grounds that he made threatening and insulting statements against members of the judiciary during the hearing at the Istanbul 33rd High Criminal Court.
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Ekrem İmamoğlu is being tried as a defendant in a case heard at the Istanbul 33rd High Criminal Court.
An ex officio investigation has been launched against İmamoğlu, who is one of the defendants in the İmamoğlu Criminal Organization for Profitable Organization case and is listed as the 'organization leader' in the indictment, due to the threatening and insulting expressions against the judiciary he used in his defense at the hearing. It was evaluated that the words uttered by İmamoğlu in his defense could have an independent criminal element.
EXCEEDED THE DEFENSE LIMIT
Following the threatening and insulting statements in İmamoğlu's defense, an investigation was launched against İmamoğlu by the Bakırköy Chief Public Prosecutor's Office for "public insult to public officials due to their duties". İmamoğlu said to the judiciary: "Apparatus, funders, you are being disgraced, you are turning into a bankrupt merchant, filth is flowing everywhere, which head is this?, Whose right not to be tarnished is being violated, whose presumption of innocence is being violated, whoever is being slandered is dishonorable, dishonorable. That is clear. It is immoral, those who wrote this indictment are questionable to me, What about the elected mayor of this country, the Presidential candidate He made baseless statements such as "There are prosecutors who write shamelessly and miserably as spies. How much they love being subjects. A man who loves being a subject can write this."
In the statement made by the Bakırköy Chief Public Prosecutor's Office, "An ex officio investigation has been launched by the Bakırköy Chief Public Prosecutor's Office for the crime of 'public insult to public officials due to their duties', due to the statements of Ekrem İmamoğlu, one of the defendants in the file numbered 2026/208 of the Istanbul 33rd High Criminal Court, at the hearing dated 15/10/2026, targeting the members of the judiciary who conducted the investigation based on the public case." statements were included.
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Preparation of a new indictment against İmamoğlu.
Likely · Within months

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