Ağırel Had Previously Given a Statement As a Witness in the Investigation and Submitted Documents He Held to the Prosecutor's Office.

The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office had launched the investigation, and Gökçek's statement process, which he attended with his lawyer, has been completed. Speaking to reporters after giving a statement that lasted about two hours, Gökçek said he would make the necessary explanations once the prosecutor's investigation is complete. "God willing, this investigation by the prosecutor's office will be finished.

Then we will get the result. Don't worry, we will talk at length on television. You know Melih Gökçek is not a man who avoids talking or is timid," he said.

Gökçek noted that this was not the first time he had given a statement, having previously gone through various investigations. He said that during the nine-year opposition period following his first election in 1994, he faced around 500 investigations and reviews, all of which ended in decisions not to prosecute. He added that during the AK Party and Welfare Party governments, he went through about 100 investigations and reviews, with no findings against him.

Addressing claims about the period of current Ankara Mayor Mansur Yavaş, Gökçek rejected assertions that nearly 100 investigations had been opened against him, saying he faced a total of 25 reviews and investigations during Yavaş's tenure. "21 of them are finished, and I have not received the results of 4. Some of the completed investigations were at the Ministry of Interior, some at prosecutor's offices. Expert reports were obtained during these investigations.

My statement was taken in all of them. Mansur Yavaş is lying when he says 'He didn't even go to give a statement. Yavaş appealed all the completed investigations without exception.

They appealed the ones from the Ministry of Interior to the Council of State, and the decisions from prosecutor's offices to a higher court." All 21 files were confirmed in my favor by the higher court and the Council of State, Gökçek said. In a separate statement, the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office said that Ahmet Gökçek and Hülya Gökçek will be brought in as suspects on Monday, September 7, at 2:00 PM to give their statements as part of the investigation.