İBB Case Hearing Continues With Release Requests

A total of 414 people are on trial in the case, including İBB President Ekrem İmamoğlu; 53 are in custody, 7 are fugitives, and 5 are complainant-defendants. Serdal Taşkın, former general manager of Kültür A.Ş. and a detained defendant, requested his release, saying: "I worked for 13 months and have been in custody for 18 months. I did not commit the crimes that are the subject of these actions.

I am not a member of an organization. I performed this duty, for which I received no income other than my salary and from which I retired from SGK, entirely in accordance with the management rules of İBB subsidiary companies. After retiring, I saw my friends here for the first time on March 19, 2019, and I met most of them here.

Until my arrest in the last months of 2020, I was farming in Erzincan. I am far from my family and my daughter. Detained businessman Murat Kapki also spoke, saying: "It is claimed that Murat Ongun was my manager.