400 artists publish declaration for İmamoğlu

Citizens reacting to the operation launched following the detention of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (IMM) Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu continue to gather in front of the IMM building in Saraçhane. Hundreds of thousands of people, filling the square on the fourth day of the protests, sent messages of support to İmamoğlu.

Ekrem İmamoğlu and the 91 people accompanying him, whose statement procedures have been completed, have been transferred from the police station to the Istanbul Courthouse in Çağlayan.

"SHOULDER TO SHOULDER FOR LAW, JUSTICE, AND DEMOCRACY"

A group of 400 people supporting the call for social justice has published a declaration in support of İmamoğlu. Among those who signed the declaration are many well-known names from the worlds of art, literature, and academia.

The names who signed the declaration, which includes the statement, "The unlawful detention of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu and his colleagues is not only an attack on elected representatives, but the latest stage of long-standing interventions against the will of millions. We do not accept this tyranny," are as follows: