The prison transfer of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Mayor İmamoğlu's lawyer Mehmet Pehlivan drew reaction

Mehmet Pehlivan, lawyer of detained IMM President Ekrem İmamoğlu, was transferred from Karatepe High Security Penitentiary Institution in Çorlu to Kandıra No. 1 F Type Prison while the hearings were ongoing. The wrestler reacted to the practice by stating that he was not informed of the reason for the transfer.

In his statement, Pehlivan said that he was transferred from the prison in Çorlu to Kandıra No. 1 F Type Prison on the night of October 2. Stating that the transfer was a transportation of hundreds of kilometers, Pehlivan stated that no "reasonable, legal and concrete" reason was given to him, and that he was only told that this was a "routine practice".

The wrestler's reaction was as follows:

"On the night of October 2, at midnight, I was transferred to Kandıra No. 1 F Type Prison, hundreds of kilometers away from Çorlu Karatepe Well Type Prison. I was not given even a single reasonable, legal and concrete reason. Instead, I was told that what was done was a "routine practice."

Since when has it been a routine to wake people up in the middle of the night, collect their belongings and take them hundreds of kilometers away within minutes?

Since when is it routine to be transferred to another city in the middle of hearings that continue uninterruptedly four days a week, in a way that renders the right of defense practically unusable?

Let's call it right: This is not a routine practice. This is torture, oppression.

If I had not been referred, I would have seen my daughter, whom I could only see openly once a month. Was this the purpose of the hasty transfer, especially in the middle of the night? Did you want to prevent me from seeing my daughter and hurt me?

Let me satisfy your curiosity: The place you hit hurt."