Adana Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Zeydan Karalar has been in prison for 6 months, waiting for evidence

Adana Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Zeydan Karalar:

"In the decision regarding the continuation of my detention, ‘tape records, expert report, HTS records, Masak report’" was shown as evidence of strong suspicion of crime. Whereas There is no tape record about me in the file, no expert report, no Masak report, and no HTS record about or against me. Although we requested these records, which were used as a justification for the decision, in a petition we submitted to the court, we have not yet received a response. I leave it to the public’s discretion."

Zeydan Karalar’s lawyers, Battal Özer and Sertaç Köse, submitted a petition to the Istanbul 1st High Criminal Court, requesting a copy of the records subject to the decision to continue Karalar’s detention.

The decision to continue Karalar’s detention is as follows:

"CMK amended article 101/1. article conditions, nature and nature of the crime, current evidence status. There is a strong suspicion that the defendants committed a crime, concrete evidence (tape records, expert report, HTS records) shows that the arrest measure is proportionate to the prescribed penalty amount and there are suspicions of escape, the judicial control measure will not be sufficient due to the principle of proportionality, the evidence has not been fully collected at this stage, Considering the existence of reasons for arrest (rejection of all petitions of objection to detention of the defendants and their defense lawyers), the defendants and Zeydan… The decision to continue the detention is based on CMK 107/1. It has been decided to notify a relative or a person determined by the defendant in accordance with the article, and to accept the objection to the Istanbul High Criminal Court by submitting a petition to our court within two weeks from the notification of the decision to the defendant, or by making a statement to the director of the penal institution and detention center in which he is detained, in accordance with Article 263 of the Criminal Procedure Code, by submitting the statement to the court clerk to the petition, or by submitting a petition on this matter."