IMM Case on Day 75: Two Eviction Decisions and Time Objection

The IMM Case continues on its 75th day.

At the last hearing in the case on Thursday, the court decided to release Bakırköy Municipality Deputy Mayor Ali Rıza Akyüz and businessman Serkan Öztürk within the scope of the detention review. Many families whose relatives have been detained for more than a year and a half reacted to the release of only two people out of 53 detainees.

Ekrem İmamoğlu, who requested release before the court panel announced its decision, reiterated his request for the hearings to be broadcast live and said, "I want the case to be broadcast live, and I want it to be doubled. The hearings from the first day it started to the present should also be broadcast. Our nation should watch every moment of it. The dates did not match, the figures did not add up, the statements of the slanderers refuted each other. Whatever they said as evidence for months was eliminated in the courtroom. What is left behind is not an indictment established with evidence, but a scenario that is tried to be kept alive with contradictions." "It remained," he said.

The case, in which requests for the release of the detainees were received last week, will continue this week with the defense of the defendants who are not detained. Within the scope of the second hearing, which started on August 17, 81 of the 325 undetained defendants made their defense.

Here are the developments in the case, moment by moment...

11.55 - SELİM İMAMOĞLU AT THE ROOM

Later in the case, Ekrem İmamoğlu's son, Selim İmamoğlu, came to the podium.

11.30 - DEFENSES STARTED

Following Beijing's objection, the hearing started with the defense of detained businessman Necmeddin Şimşek. Later, businessman Alptekin Polat made a short defense.

11.15 - "IF THE TIMES CONTINUE LIKE THIS, AS IMAMOĞLU'S LAWYERS, WE WILL NOT BE HERE AFTER 18:00"

After the court panel and the detainees took their seats, the hearing started with the objection of Tora Beijing, one of Ekrem İmamoğlu's lawyers, to the hearing hours.

While Beijing objected to the hearings extending into the middle of the night, it said that the sessions should not continue after 18:00 unless there was a special necessity.

Addressing the presiding judge, Beijing stated that long hearing hours harm the right to a fair trial, stated that the panel's decision on this issue was not clear and that they applied to the Turkish Medical Association (TTB) for this reason, and stated that they prepared a request regarding the hearing hours and the lawyers being out of town.