Breaking News: Operation against 2 CHP municipalities in İzmir! Mayors in custody

In simultaneous operations conducted in four provinces centered in İzmir this morning, detention warrants were issued for 26 people, including CHP mayors and municipal officials.

As part of the investigation carried out by the Seferihisar Chief Public Prosecutor's Office, simultaneous search, seizure, and detention operations were conducted in İzmir, Istanbul, Adana, and Aydın at around 05:00.

Within the scope of the operation, Balçova Mayor Onur Yiğit,

Seferihisar Mayor İsmail Yetişkin,

and 24 others, including İzmir Metropolitan Municipality and Güzelbahçe Municipal Council Member Doğuş Bayır, as well as Seferihisar Deputy Mayors Nuriye Hepterlikçi and İnanç Karabulut, were taken into custody.

NAMES TAKEN INTO CUSTODY

The names taken into custody as part of the operation are as follows:

İsmail YETİŞKİN (Mayor of Seferihisar)

Onur YİĞİT (Mayor of Balçova)

Meryem YİĞİT (Mother of Onur YİĞİT)

İnanç KARABULUT (Deputy Mayor of Seferihisar)

Nuriye HEPTERLİKÇİ (Deputy Mayor of Seferihisar)

İrfan ÇEVİK (Seferihisar Municipality Chief of Staff)

Doğuş BAYIR (İzmir Metropolitan and Güzelbahçe Council Member)

Mehmet UĞUR (Acting Director of Construction Control at Seferihisar Municipality)

Nilay Özcan EŞİN (City Planner at Seferihisar Municipality)

İsmail Fergun KESER (Electrical Engineer and Director of Construction Control at Seferihisar Municipality)

Cüneyt OKULTAŞ (Retired civil servant from Seferihisar Municipality)

Barış YAMAN (Construction Control Officer at Seferihisar Municipality)

Mehmet ERSAY (Owner of Mehmet Ersay İnşaat Sanayi ve Ticaret Ltd. Şti.)

Medeni ÇİFTÇİ (Owner of İNG Yapı İnşaat Tarım Hayvancılık Turizm Bilişim Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş.)

Baver BARAN (Owner of MBB Mimarlık Mühendislik İnşaat Turizm Sanayi ve Ticaret Ltd. Şti.)

Hidayet DEMİR (Owner/partner of Deniz Ada Yapı Denetim)

Ömer Faruk SOKULLU (Official at Fi Yapı Denetim Ltd. Şti.)

Pelin TURHAN (Architect, Architectural Project Manager for Yıldız Konakları)

Mustafa DURAK (Former employee of Sönmez İnşaat)

Birkan ALKAN (Former office clerk at Seferihisar Geothermal)

Akın Emre İLDENİZ (Owner of İldeniz Ticaret and Makro Emlak businesses)

Levent TAŞYAKAN (Owner of Beton-Taş Hazır Beton Sanayi ve Ticaret Ltd. Şti.)

Kutlay GÖZÜBATIK (Owner of Kutlay Gözübatık Real Estate Trading firm)

Ertan KORKMAZ (Retired agricultural engineer)

Sercan TAŞLIOĞLU (Map Technician at Seferihisar Geothermal)

Turgut SAFYÜREK (Owner of Bostanlı Yapı Denetim Firması)