The trial of 31 defendants, including Hasan Akgün, who was suspended from his post as Büyükçekmece Mayor and arrested, began on allegations of corruption. On the second day of the hearing held at the Istanbul 27th High Criminal Court, some detained and unarrested defendants, including the detained defendant Hasan Akgün, were present. The defendant’s lawyers also attended the hearing. After the defense and statements received, the court announced its interim decision and decided to release the defendant Atahan Bacınoğlu, on the condition that a judicial control measure such as ‘not leaving the house’ is applied. The committee ruled that the other detained defendants, including the defendant Hasan Akgün, continue to be detained and postponed the hearing to September 2.

FROM THE INDICTMENT

In the indictment prepared by the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office, it was requested that the suspect Hasan Akgün be sentenced to a total of 68 years to 183 years in prison for the crimes of ‘establishing and managing a criminal organization for profit’, 11 times ‘taking a bribe’, 2 times ‘extortion by force’ and ‘laundering property values ​​arising from crime’. Prison sentences of varying degrees were requested for the other 30 suspects for various crimes.

According to the decision published in the Official Gazette, Ardahan Governor Mehmet Fatih Çiçekli was dismissed in accordance with Articles 2, 3 and 4 of Presidential Decree No. 3. Gaziantep Şehitkamil District Governor Ömer Hilmi Yamlı was appointed in his place.

Raziye Bilge Koçyiğit, Director General of Foreign Policy Planning and Coordination, was appointed as the Permanent Representative of the Republic of Türkiye to the Council of Europe. Turkmenistan Ambassador Ahmet Demirok was taken to the center and Deputy General Manager Responsible for Central Asian Countries Şener Cebeci was appointed in his place.

In addition, with the decision, University of Health Sciences Faculty Member Prof. was appointed as the General Surgery Member of the First Specialization Board of Forensic Medicine. Dr. Ali Kocataş, Member of the Seventh Specialization Board of Forensic Medicine, Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, Istanbul Kent University Faculty Member Prof. Dr. Oğuz Çetinkale was brought. Yaşar Aksanyar, General Director of Compliance and Communication at the Directorate of Migration Management, Ozan Gazel, General Director of Border Management, Bayram Yalınsu, General Director of International Protection, and Fatih Ayna, General Director of Foreigners, were dismissed. Ahmet Dalkıran was appointed as the General Directorate of Harmonization and Communication, Deputy Director General of the Provincial Administration of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Mehmet Yüzer was appointed as the General Directorate of Border Management, Mustafa Güney was appointed as the General Directorate of International Protection and Özge Kaplan was appointed as the General Directorate of Foreigners.

Ahmet Ceylan, Chairman of the Inspection Board of the General Directorate of Forestry, was dismissed and Fuat Şanal was appointed in his place. Hakan Nalbantoğlu was appointed as the vacant Board Member at the General Directorate of Agricultural Enterprises. Oğuzhan Şatıroğlu, General Manager of the Ministry of Commerce, Support Services, Liquidation Affairs and Revolving Fund, was dismissed. Turkish Rail System Vehicles Industry Inc. Murat Durkan, Aysel Kandemir, Murat Baştor and Aziz Yıldırım were appointed to the vacant Board Memberships in the General Directorate.

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AFAD and TSK-DAK teams, which participated in search and rescue efforts after the earthquakes on June 24, in which more than 4,500 people lost their lives in Venezuela, landed at Mürted Airport yesterday with the A400M cargo plane belonging to the Ministry of National Defense (MSB). On the plane reaching Ankara; In addition to AFAD personnel, 22 personnel from the Turkish Armed Forces Humanitarian Aid Brigade Command International Search and Rescue Team, 4 search and rescue dogs and fully equipped search and rescue vehicles were present.

BEHIND THE RADAR DEVICE HAS BEEN SHARED
Infantry Major Yener Çamurlu, who has been on duty for two weeks during the earthquake in Venezuela, said, “Our own special equipment and our own personnel were very valuable in this context. We did very good work there. At the same time, we supported not only our own, but also other world search and rescue teams with our own local and national behind-the-wall radars. They were quite lagging behind in this regard, so we supported them a lot.”

ENGAGEMENT AND PRAISE NICKNAME
Explaining that 4 dogs trained in search and rescue activities were traveling with them, in addition to their teammates, Çamurlu reminded that they were presented with a medal of heroism in Venezuela. Çamurlu said, “We liked it very much that they honored us in this way. They even gave it to our dogs.” Infantry Senior Sergeant Oktay Türkay also stated that they continued their search and rescue efforts with their team members in 12-hour shifts in Venezuela and said, “The people of Venezuela gave us the nickname ‘Turks who never get tired’ because of these search and rescue efforts. This made us proud.”

A new drug operation was carried out against celebrities by the Bakırköy Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office. In the statement of the prosecutor’s office, it was emphasized that evidence supporting the reasonable suspicion that the suspects used drugs and stimulants, facilitated drug use or provided a place to use drugs was obtained.

“KITCHEN SCALE”
İlyas Yalçıntaş, who was referred to the court with a request for arrest, said on social media, “The ‘precision scale’ mentioned in the news is a completely legal and ordinary kitchen scale that I use to track calories and nutrition. I have full confidence in the judicial process.”

DETENTION DECISION FOR 25 PEOPLE
In the investigation, tavern operators Akın Altan and Cenk Çöteli, phenomenon Asude Mercan, about whom there were reports of supplying drugs and mediating prostitution, producer Ateş İnce, singer Aybüke Albere, model Ayşe Nur Balcı, phenomenon Buğra Balkaya, actor Burak Çelik, model Büşra Tatar (Canbaz), business owner Feyza Cihan, businessman Gökhan Şafak and his journalist wife Hazal Eylem İpek Şafak, manager Hilal A detention The decision was taken for Zeynep Hedbe, singer İlyas Yalçıntaş, model İrem Haznedar, manager Kübra Altay, producer Mehmet Fatih Aksoy, Melis Selçukoğlu, who is publicly known for her closeness to famous names, businessman Oğuz Alp Güler, manager Orhan Yıldız, Cem Yılmaz’s cousin Öner Faruk Işık, DJ Şefik Ömer Dolman, singer Sıla Gençoğlu, businessmen Ümit Aslan and Volkan Büyükhanlı.

ARREST OF 4 PEOPLE
Ayşenur was among the suspects who were brought to the courthouse, including Sıla Gençoğlu, İlyas Yalçıntaş, Ateş İnce, Öner Faruk Işık, Şefik Ömer Dolman, Aybüke Albere, Ayşe Nur Balcı, İrem Haznedar, Orhan Yıldız, Gökhan Şafak, Buğra Balkaya, Asude Mercan, Hilal Zeynep Hedbe, Volkan Büyükhanlı, Büşra Tatar and Feyza Cihan. Balcı, Şefik Ömer Dolma, Orhan Yıldız and İlyas Yalçıntaş were arrested and sent to prison by the Criminal Judgeship of Peace, to which the prosecutor’s statements were referred. Suspects Mehmet Fatih Aksoy, Eylem İpek Şafak, Burak Çelik and Öner Faruk Işık were released by the court after their procedures.

4 PEOPLE WERE DETAINED IN 3 DISTRICTS
Meanwhile, 4 suspects were detained in the operation in Istanbul where 45 kilos 488 grams of drugs were seized. Provincial Police Department Narcotics teams carried out simultaneous operations at 3 addresses with 4 vehicles in Beylikdüzü, Büyükçekmece and Kağıthane. During the operations, 45 kilos, 488 grams of drugs and a vacuum machine were seized.

Minister of Internal Affairs Mustafa Çiftçi met with the families of martyrs, veterans and members of the police force at the program held at the Gölbaşı Police Special Operations Directorate, which was treacherously bombed by FETO on the night of the coup and where 44 police officers were martyred, on the occasion of July 15 Democracy and National Unity Day. Turgut Aslan, the former Head of the Counterterrorism Department and Chief Advisor to the President, a July 15 veteran who was taken hostage by the militants of the Fetullah Terrorist Organization and executed, but clung to life, also attended the commemoration program in Gölbaşı. In his speech at the commemoration program, Minister Çiftçi said that the struggle on July 15 was one of the most important turning points in Türkiye’s recent history. Stating that the Police Special Operations Directorate paid one of the heaviest prices in the coup attempt, Çiftçi stated that Gölbaşı is in the memory of the nation as a symbol of courage and resistance, and emphasized that the state is on the alert against all kinds of threats.

‘TILL IT DRINS OUT’
Police Chief Ali Fidan also made a speech at the commemoration program at the Police Special Operations Directorate. Stating that they, as the Police Department, continue their fight against FETO with determination, Fidan said, “We will continue our fight uncompromisingly until we eradicate this treacherous focus of evil.” Reminding that the Police Special Operations Directorate was subjected to one of the heaviest attacks by the treacherous coup plotters on the night of July 15, Fidan said that 44 special operations police officers were martyred in Gölbaşı and 7 police officers in the Aviation Department were martyred. Stating that a total of 65 members of the Police Department were martyred during the coup attempt, Fidan said, “I wish God’s mercy to our martyrs. May their souls rest in peace, their place in heaven, and their ranks be high. I wish our heroic veterans health, well-being and a good life.”

‘WE REMEMBER WITH GRATITUDE’
In his post on his social media account regarding the events held, Minister Çiftçi said, “The bloody FETO, which pointed our nation’s weapons at our nation, bombed our Veteran Parliament, was defeated by the determined leadership of our esteemed President, the courage of our security forces and the steel will of our nation. We commemorate our martyrs with mercy and our heroic veterans with gratitude. We have not forgotten. We will not let them forget. The will is ours, the victory is ours.” – –

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan shared a post on his social media account about the simultaneous reading of sela in mosques across the country on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of July 15 Democracy and National Unity Day. In his post on his NSosyal account, Erdoğan said, “These greetings are the symbol of once again declaring to the world that no power can stand against this nation whose chest is full of faith. May the souls of all our martyrs rest in peace.” In his post, Erdoğan also included an image of the National Anthem with the lines “These calls to prayer, whose martyrdom is the foundation of religion, my groaning above my eternal homeland…” and a Turkish flag on the mosque minaret.

‘I CONGRATULATE’
In his message on the 10th anniversary of July 15 Democracy and National Unity Day, President Erdoğan said, “We wrote a magnificent epic together as a nation on the night of July 15, 10 years ago. Today, I would like to once again convey my congratulations and thanks to every member of my beloved nation, including women, men, young and old, who took to the streets with flags in their hands, prayers on their tongues, and love for Turkey in their hearts, narrowing down the squares for the coup plotters. “I would like to express my gratitude to all my brothers in different countries of the world who raised their hands to the sky and wet their prayer rugs with tears to say ‘Do not bring harm to Türkiye’. Our struggle will continue until FETO is completely eliminated and this treason network, which disguises itself in all its forms, is eradicated,” he said.