Mahir Polat is the Deputy Secretary General of the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality. He is one of dozens of people arrested along with Ekrem İmamoğlu as a result of baseless accusations made against İmamoğlu.
The accusation is that Mahir Polat donated 100 TL (about 2 pounds) to a charity campaign started by Trabzonspor fans 12 years ago for a poor individual.
Ten years later, a “terrorism investigation” was launched against this poor person, and they were acquitted. This has been used as the justification for arresting Mahir Polat. How could Mahir Polat have known what kind of investigation would be launched against someone ten years later?
Polat, who has six stents in his heart and suffers from high blood pressure, was also arrested based on his phone calls.
Speaking with a Yazidi academic and seeking information for a book he was writing was also considered a crime.
This is the kind of accusation being made against people recently arrested in Turkey.
Erdoğan has had most of Ekrem İmamoğlu’s close colleagues arrested on fabricated grounds, as İmamoğlu is his greatest political rival.
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