IMM Case is on its 91st Day: Expectation of Release

The IMM trial, with 436 defendants, 57 of whom are detained, including Elected Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (IMM) Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, continued on its 91st day, in the new courtroom of the Marmara Closed Prison in Silivri.

While the defense of 3 people was taken yesterday, the number of people whose defense was completed out of 325 undetained defendants was 289. There are 36 undetained defendants who have not yet made a defense.

On today's hearing day, a detention review is expected to be conducted based on the file in the evening. In this context, new evacuations are on the agenda.

In the case that started with 110 people being detained and 304 people being tried without detention, 51 people have been detained for approximately 18 months, and 6 people who were added to the file with the additional indictment against AĞAÇ AŞ have been detained for approximately 5 months. In the last detention review at the beginning of September, 2 people were released.

12.00 | THE HEARING HAS STARTED

The defendants, lawyers and the court panel took their places and the hearing began. It was seen that almost all of the audience seats in the courtroom were filled due to the detention examination.

Murat Abbas, General Manager of Kültür AŞ, an active repentant whose defense and interrogation with questions from the defendants was completed yesterday, was the first name to come to the podium to answer the questions of the defendant's lawyers.