Making his defense on the 6th day of the 1st hearing in the bribery case against the Aziz \u0130hsan Akta\u015f Crime Organization, dismissed Be\u015fikta\u015f Mayor R\u0131za Akpolat said, \u201cI was told, \u2018Talk about the CHP Congress, become a confessor. We will clean the Be\u015fikta\u015f file\u2019. I was even given until May. I didn't speak. Anyway, whatever happened happened after May. I didn't talk because I thought about the children of 86 million, not my two daughters.\u201c.<\/p>\n
Following Akpolat, CHP Chairman \u00d6zg\u00fcr \u00d6zel took this claim further in a live broadcast and claimed that the person who made the offer was the lawyer of journalist Enver Aysever, without naming him.<\/p>\n
\u00d6zel said the following on the issue:<\/p>\n
\u201cThey threaten R\u0131za Akpolat with everyone they can find, his family, everything, and make him slander them. But there is not a single piece of evidence, not a blind penny. For nearly 700 years, I say this; our brother R\u0131za said this there, looking them in the eye. \u2018They sent me a lawyer,\u2018 he said. They said, \u2019Slander me about the CHP congress, get out immediately.\u2018 I am here because I didn't.\u2018 R\u0131za Akpolat is there because of his party affiliation. There is something very clear. They tried the congress of the Republican People's Party many times, it failed. They put 700 years on R\u0131za Akpolat, then send a lawyer so that when that lawyer's name comes out, the prosecutor can take action, \u2019Which lawyer is this? Everyone will see. Are they in collusion or is he deceiving her? It's about the journalist friend who allegedly made a backhanded gesture to Ekrem \u0130mamo\u011flu in Sabah newspaper in a place where there was 25 meters between them and everyone witnessed it... However, he only said \u2019Thank you, President\u2018. The slandering lawyer. Or I visited the journalist friend. We hugged at the beginning and at the end. We had a camera on us. He said, \u2019You created a miracle after March 19, Mayor. Supposedly, he told me, \u2018You can be relocated, you can go to jail,\u2019 a lot of things... The lawyer who made those slanders went to R\u0131za Akpolat and told him, \u2018Lie in the congress case. Get free\u2019. I will only say \u2018Oh\u2019 on the day all of them are put on trial. I know them all, I follow them all. I know the person who slandered them in that Sabah newspaper. I know what the lawyer he relied on was involved in, I know what happened. They will all be held accountable. \u2018<\/em><\/p>\n Following \u00d6zg\u00fcr \u00d6zel's statement, journalist Enver Aysever's lawyer Mikayil Dilbaz responded to the CHP leader with a post on his social media account. TWO LIES, ONE PERCEPTION: REPLY TO FREE PRIVATE You are using my name on television screens to circulate two separate lies at the same time.<\/p>\n First one: \u201cGo to Reza Akpolat and explain the facts at the congress, this...<\/p>\n - Mikayil Dilbaz (@Mikayildilbaz) February 5, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\nAysever's lawyer Dilbaz responds to both \u00d6zel and Akpolat<\/h3>\n
\n\u201cI am making these statements independently of my client Enver Aysever,\u201d Dilbaz said, using harsh words for \u00d6zg\u00fcr \u00d6zel.<\/p>\n\n
\n(I make these statements independently of my client ENVER AYSEVER)<\/p>\n