3 candidates competed: The new Chief Prosecutor of the Council of State has been determined

Following the retirement of the Chief Prosecutor of the Council of State, Nevzat Özgür, an election was held at the General Assembly of the Council of State.

In the election, Cevdet Erkan was elected to the position of Chief Prosecutor of the Council of State, receiving 63 votes out of the 112 members of the Council of State.

The other candidates, Yüksel Öztürk received 27 votes, and Ahmet Saraç received 12 votes.

WHO IS CEVDET ERKAN?

Cevdet Erkan was born in 1967 in the Vakfıkebir district of Trabzon and graduated from the Faculty of Political Sciences at Istanbul University in 1988.

Erkan, who began his career in 1993, served respectively as a member of the administrative courts in Trabzon, Van, Zonguldak, and Samsun, as president of the Erzurum and Samsun administrative courts, and as President of the Kayseri Regional Administrative Court.

Elected as a member of the Council of State in 2014, Erkan served as the Secretary General of the Council of State between February 11, 2019, and September 10, 2020.

News Source: AA