AKP's Istanbul district candidates finalized: Erdoğan drops 3 mayors!
The AKP's Istanbul district mayoral candidates will be announced today. It has been learned that AKP Chairman and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will not be moving forward with the current mayors in 3 districts.
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The candidate selection process continues within the AKP as it proceeds with its local election efforts.
Having nominated Murat Kurum in Istanbul, Turgut Altınok in Ankara, and Hamza Dağ in Izmir, AKP Chairman and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will announce the Istanbul district mayoral candidates today (January 20) at 2:00 PM at the Haliç Congress Center.
AKP Istanbul Provincial Chairman Osman Nuri Kabaktepe notified the candidates of their nominations by calling them in alphabetical order.
According to the list leaked on social media, Erdoğan has made changes in 3 of the districts won in the 2019 local elections.
It has been learned that Mustafa Candaroğlu will be nominated in place of the current Mayor Ahmet Haşim Baltacı in Arnavutköy, Ali Tombaş in place of Hüseyin Keskin in Sultanbeyli, and İlknur Kovaç in place of Atilla Aydıner in Bayrampaşa.
The list of AKP's Istanbul district mayoral candidates to be announced today at 2:00 PM is as follows:
- Adalar - Sina Şen
- Ataşehir - Mustafa Naim Yağcı
- Beykoz - Murat Aydın
- Çekmeköy - Ahmet Poyraz
- Kadıköy - Veli Arslan
- Kartal - Hüseyin Karayakaya
- Maltepe - Kadem Ekşi
- Pendik - Ahmet Çin
- Sancaktepe - Şeyma Döğücü
- Sultanbeyli - Ali Tombaş
- Şile - İlhan Ocaklı
- Tuzla - Şadi Yazıcı
- Ümraniye - İsmet Yıldırım
- Üsküdar - Hilmi Türkmen
- Bayrampaşa - İlknur Kovaç
- Beşiktaş - Serkan Toper
- Beyoğlu - Haydar Ali Yıldız
- Esenler - Tevfik Göksu
- Eyüpsultan - Deniz Köken
- Fatih - Mehmet Ergün Turan
- Gaziosmanpaşa - Hasan Tahsin Usta
- Kağıthane - Mevlüt Öztekin
- Sarıyer - Hüseyin Coşkun
- Sultangazi - Abdurrahman Dursun
- Şişli - Gökhan Yüksel
- Zeytinburnu - Ömer Arısoy
- Arnavutköy - Mustafa Candaroğlu
- Avcılar - Abdullah Küçükoğlu
- Bağcılar - Abdullah Özdemir
- Bahçelievler - Hakan Bahadır
- Bakırköy - Ali Talip Özdemir
- Başakşehir - Yasin kartoğlu
- Beylikdüzü - Mustafa Günaydın
- Büyükçekmece - Recep Erol
- Çatalca - Mesut Üner
- Esenyurt - Hamit Öncü
- Güngören - Bünyamin Demir
- Küçükçekmece - Aziz Yeniay
- Silivri - Volkan Yılmaz