Mersin Mayor Among 59 Detained in Corruption Probes Targeting 3 CHP-Run Municipalities - Stockholm Center for Freedom
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Turkish police detained 59 people, including three mayors from the opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), on corruption charges.
Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, who belonged to the same party, was also arrested in 2025, which triggered mass protests. Turkish police detained 59 people on Wednesday evening, including three mayors from the opposition Republican People’s Party, on corruption charges, Politico reports. Suspicions of public tender fraud Authorities have […]
DEM Party Co-Chairs Tülay Hatimoğulları and Tuncer Bakırhan reacted to the detention of 59 people, including mayors, in an operation targeting Mersin Metropolitan Municipality and two district municipalities. In a joint statement, Hatimoğulları and Bakırhan stated that they did not accept the detentions of 59 people, including Mersin Metropolitan Mayor Vahap Seçer, Yenişehir Mayor Abdullah Özyiğit, and Mezitli Mayor Ahmet Serkan Tuncer.
CHP spokesperson Müslim Sarı arrived in Mersin to support the three CHP mayors detained in the corruption investigation. Sarı stated that they have formed a delegation to follow the process and provide legal and political support to the mayors, and that the party leader is also expected to visit the city.
Mersin mayor among 59 detained in corruption probes targeting 3 CHP-run municipalities - Stockholm Center for Freedom
Mersin Mayor Vahap Seçer was among three mayors and 59 other people detained Thursday in corruption investigations involving public procurement at three municipalities in the southern Turkish province of Mersin, the DHA news agency reported. Seçer, a member of the Republican People’s Party (CHP) who also serves as president of the Union of Municipalities of […]
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