Mutlu is the most recent in a string of opposition officers to be arrested in latest months in a clampdown on opposition to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
In August, İnan Güney, the mayor of Istanbul’s Beyoğlu district was taken into custody for alleged corruption.
In March, Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu — Erdogan’s prime political rival — was despatched to jail on costs of corruption and aiding a terrorist group, regardless of large protests. A brand new trial in opposition to him started on Friday, the place İmamoğlu faces costs of falsifying his college diploma.
Mutlu, Güney and İmamoğlu are all members of Turkey’s largest opposition occasion, the social democratic CHP.
