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Detained Mayor Günel: 'Those who couldn't find a single concrete piece of evidence against me are writing scenarios at their desks'

From Cumhuriyet · () Turkish

Translated from Turkish, summarized and contextualized by DistantNews.

At a glance

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  • Kuşadası Mayor Ömer Günel, currently detained, claims his investigation is a politically motivated operation to fabricate accusations.
  • Günel alleges authorities are pressuring individuals to provide false testimony against him by threatening their freedom and families.
  • He vows to expose the alleged conspiracy and insists that fabricated statements will not lead to his conviction.

Kuşadası Mayor Ömer Günel, detained and suspended from his duties, has issued a statement from prison asserting that the investigation against him is not a legal inquiry but a "slander operation." He claims that those unable to find concrete evidence are resorting to fabricating scenarios.

This is not a legal investigation, but a slander operation.

— Ömer GünelMayor Günel's statement from prison describing the investigation against him.

Günel alleges that individuals are being threatened with their freedom, families, and futures to force them to lie about him. He states that authorities are attempting to build a case based on the false confessions of "so-called whistleblowers" obtained through pressure and manipulation, rather than concrete evidence.

"If a person is threatened with prison, pressured through their family, and told 'give the statement we want, and you'll be free,' this is not effective remorse; it is a system that forces slander," Günel wrote. He characterized these methods as tactics of political conspiracies, not the rule of law.

People are being threatened with their freedom, families, and futures to force them to lie about me.

— Ömer GünelMayor Günel's allegation regarding the methods used in the investigation.

He further asserted that those who cannot present a single piece of concrete evidence against him are now creating scenarios. He plans to present documented evidence to the public showing how individuals are transformed into informants, blackmailers, and finally, slanderers through illegal detentions and the manipulation of the justice system.

If a person is threatened with prison, pressured through their family, and told 'give the statement we want, and you'll be free,' this is not effective remorse; it is a system that forces slander.

— Ömer GünelMayor Günel's critique of the alleged interrogation tactics.

"I will not give up my struggle," Günel declared, adding, "Because I know that evil has a short lifespan, and truth has an eternal lifespan." He believes that fabricated statements and conspiracies will ultimately fail.

Those who cannot present a single piece of concrete evidence against me are now creating scenarios at their desks.

— Ömer GünelMayor Günel's accusation of fabricated evidence.
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Originally published by Cumhuriyet in Turkish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized by our editorial team with added local perspective. Read our editorial standards.

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