Turkish Main Opposition Party Condemns Arrest Of Three Of Its Mayors

July 10, 2025 TheMcgwire

Turkish Main Opposition Party Condemns Arrest Of Three Of Its Mayors

The detentions occur amid expanding corruption investigations targeting Republican People’s Party strongholds after significant local election losses for the ruling AKP

Three mayors from the opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) were arrested in Turkiye on 5 July, in what the party has denounced as a “political operation.”

Zeydan Karalar, mayor of Adana; Muhittin Bocek, mayor of Antalya; and Abdurrahman Tutdere, mayor of Adiyaman, were all detained on Saturday as part of separate corruption investigations.

The arrests follow the imprisonment of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu earlier this year and come days after more than 120 people were arrested in connection with a corruption probe in Izmir.

“In a system where the law is bent and twisted according to politics, where justice is applied for one segment and ignored for another, no one should expect us to trust the rule of law or believe in justice,” wrote Ankara Mayor Mansur Yavas on X.

According to the state-run Anadolu Agency, the mayors of Adana and Adıyaman were arrested in relation to allegations of tender rigging and corruption. The mayor of Antalya was detained under a separate investigation that also saw the arrest of his son.

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