{"id":82665,"date":"2026-05-14T18:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T18:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/82665\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T18:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T18:37:10","slug":"60-sought-in-corruption-operation-targeting-opposition-run-district-municipality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/82665\/","title":{"rendered":"60 sought in corruption operation targeting opposition-run district municipality"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Prosecutors in a central Turkish province issued detention warrants for 60 suspects, including 33 municipal employees, in a corruption investigation targeting a district municipality run by Turkey\u2019s main opposition party, with police searching municipal offices and homes on Thursday, Turkish Minute<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n

The operation targeted the Tepeba\u015f\u0131 Municipality, one of two central districts in the western province of Eski\u015fehir.<\/p>\n

Tepeba\u015f\u0131 is run by Ahmet Ata\u00e7, a mayor from the main opposition Republican People\u2019s Party (CHP).<\/p>\n

Eski\u015fehir prosecutors said the investigation concerns allegations of office.<\/p>\n

The prosecutor\u2019s office said the case was based on reports from Turkey\u2019s Financial Crimes Investigation Board (MASAK), the Tax Inspection Board, Interior Ministry inspectors, experts, police reports, bank records, crypto asset accounts and witness statements.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors alleged that some municipal tenders involved irregularities, especially in purchases by the municipality\u2019s Culture, Arts and Social Affairs Directorate.<\/p>\n

The prosecutor\u2019s office said assets belonging to suspects and linked companies were seized based on MASAK reports.<\/p>\n

Police carried out searches at municipal offices and at suspects\u2019 homes and workplaces.<\/p>\n

Turkey\u2019s state-run Anadolu news agency said 23 suspects had so far been detained in operations centered in Eski\u015fehir and also carried out in Ankara and Adana.<\/p>\n

Anadolu said the detainees included a deputy mayor, identified only by the initials S.Y., and Mayor Ata\u00e7\u2019s private secretary, identified as \u00d6.E.<\/p>\n

Ata\u00e7 attended a symposium while the operation was taking place and had not made a statement on the investigation, according to the \u0130hlas news agency.<\/p>\n

The operation comes amid a series of criminal investigations targeting municipalities controlled by the CHP since October 2024, months after the party won a plurality of the national vote ahead of President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan\u2019s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) in the March 2024 local elections.<\/p>\n

The crackdown on CHP-run municipalities intensified after the March 2025 jailing of \u0130stanbul Mayor Ekrem \u0130mamo\u011flu, Erdo\u011fan\u2019s main political rival, with 23 CHP mayors having been jailed at some point since the 2024 vote, 20 in jail and 25 removed from office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prosecutors in a central Turkish province issued detention warrants for 60 suspects, including 33 municipal employees, in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[44032,44033,39159,2031,425,44034,2907,427,26350,429,430,131,132,44035,155],"class_list":{"0":"post-82665","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-stockholm","8":"tag-ahmet-atac","9":"tag-allegations-of-office","10":"tag-corruption-allegations","11":"tag-crackdown-on-opposition","12":"tag-democracy","13":"tag-eskisehir","14":"tag-financial-crimes-investigation-board-masak","15":"tag-justice","16":"tag-opposition-run-municipalities","17":"tag-oppression","18":"tag-republican-peoples-party-chp","19":"tag-stockholm","20":"tag-sweden","21":"tag-tepebasi-municipality","22":"tag-turkey"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116574384829472285","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}