President and AKP Chairman Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will announce his party's district mayoral candidates for Ankara today. However, the Ankara candidates were leaked to the press before Erdoğan's announcement. Mamak Mayor Murat Köse was left off the list.
According to a report by the Sözcü newspaper, Köse's poor performance in polls and the fact that the Nation Alliance's votes surpassed the People's Alliance in this district during the 2023 elections led the AKP to make a change in "actors." Asım Balcı has been brought in to fill the candidacy left vacant by Köse.
Here is the list of the AKP's mayoral candidates
Akyurt: Hilal Ayık (Incumbent)
Altındağ: Veysel Tiryaki (Former Deputy Minister of Agriculture)
Bala: Ahmet Buran (Incumbent)
Beypazarı: Tuncer Kaplan (Incumbent)
Çamlıdere: Hazım Caner Can (Incumbent)
Çankaya: Duhan Kalkan (Mayor of Kalecik)
Çubuk: Baki Demirbaş (Incumbent)
Elmadağ: Eyüp Tekiner (AKP District Chairman)
Evren: Hüsamettin Ünsal (Incumbent)
Güdül: Muzaffer Yalçın (Incumbent)
Haymana: Özdemir Turgut (Incumbent)
Kahramankazan: Serhat Oğuz (Incumbent)
Keçiören: Zafer Çoktan (AKP District Chairman)
Kızılcahamam: Süleyman Acar (Incumbent)
Mamak: Asım Balcı (Mayor of Altındağ)
Nallıhan: İsmail Öntaş (Incumbent)
Pursaklar: Ertuğrul Çetin (Incumbent)
Sincan: Murat Ercan (Incumbent)
Şereflikoçhisar: Memiş Çelik (Incumbent)
Yenimahalle: Abdulkadir Aydoğan (AKP District Chairman).
News Source: 12punto
