AKP to make its 11th MP 'transfer' since 2023! Which party has the most departures?

The first MP transfer of the new year will take place at the AKP group meeting. Mersin MP Hasan Ufuk Çakır, who left his party after a motion for his expulsion from the CHP was filed, has announced that he will join the AKP.

With Çakır's transfer, the AKP will have completed its 11th MP transfer since the May 14, 2023, general elections.

WHICH MPS HAVE JOINED THE AKP?

The MPs who have joined the AKP following the May 14, 2023, elections and their dates of transfer are as follows:

Dursun Ataş – İYİ Party (30.10.2024)

Seyithan İzsiz – İYİ Party (14.08.2024)

Suat Pamukçu – New Welfare Party (24.03.2024)

Nedim Yamalı – Future Party (25.12.2024)

Kürşat Zorlu – İYİ Party (21.01.2025)

Salim Ensarioğlu – İYİ Party (23.02.2025)

Serap Yazıcı Özbudun – Future Party (23.02.2025)

Ünal Karaman – İYİ Party (23.02.2025)

Hasan Ekici – Future Party (14.05.2025)

İdris Nebi Hatipoğlu – İYİ Party (07.11.2025)

Hasan Ufuk Çakır – CHP (07.01.2026)

WHAT HAD ERDOĞAN SAID?

AKP Chairman and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had expressed his opposition to MP transfers in previous years. In a statement made in 2013, Erdoğan had used the following expressions:

“If a person enters an election under the flag of a party, they act together with that party. If they are leaving, they do not just leave the party; if they are honest, they also leave parliament and leave their seat as an MP. That is what should happen; the moral aspect of the matter requires this. But this is not something granted to everyone.”