![]() | This article needs to be updated.(March 2025) |
The following is an incomplete list of arrested mayors in Turkey.
Mayor | District | Arrested | Released | Status | Charge | Party | Source | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mehdi Zana | Diyarbakır | March 1980 | April 1991 | released | Independent | [1] | ||
Fikri Sönmez | Fatsa | 11 July 1980 | died in prison on May 4, 1985 | Revolutionary activity, “Communist Fatsa” charge | Independent | |||
Ali Dinçer | Ankara | Sept. 1980 | released | CHP | ||||
1999–2009 | ||||||||
Recep Tayyip Erdogan | Istanbul | 27 March 1999 | July 1999 | released after four months | sentenced to 10 months imprisonment for citing a poem | Welfare Party | [2] | |
Feridun Çelik | Diyarbakır | Feb. 2000 | 28 Feb. 2000 | released | For allegedly supporting the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). | HADEP | [3] [4] | |
Selim Özalp | Siirt | Feb. 2000 | Feb. 2000 | released | For allegedly supporting the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). | HADEP | [3] [5] | |
Feyzullah Karaaslan | Bingöl | Feb. 2000 | Feb. 2000 | released | For allegedly supporting the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). | HADEP | [3] [5] | |
2009–2014 | ||||||||
Ferit Çelik | Karliova | 5 April 2012 | sentenced to 8 years | Sentenced for aiding and abetting the PKK [6] | BDP | [7] [6] | ||
Abdullah Akengin | Dicle | Dec. 2009 | February 2013 [8] | imprisoned for over 3 years | In relation with the KCK trial | BDP | [9] | |
Abdullah Demirbaş | Sur | Dec. 2009 | May 2010 | released on medical grounds | Among other charges were "using the Kurdish language in his official capacity" [10] | BDP | [11] [10] | |
Aydin Budak | Cizre | 23-24 Dec. 2009 | sentenced to 7 years and 6 months | BDP | [12] [13] | |||
Zülküf Karatekin | Kayapınar | 23-24 Dec. 2009 | sentenced to 9 years | for being “member of an organization“ [14] during a trial of members of the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) | BDP | [13] | ||
Nejdet Atalay | Batman | 23-24 Dec. 2009 | sentenced to 1 year and 8 months | Sentenced for calling Members of the PKK "warriors of the Kurdish people in mountains" [15] | BDP | [13] | ||
Etem Şahin | Suruç | 23-24 Dec. 2009 | sentenced to 1 year and 9 months | For speaking Kurdish during his election campaign and violated the law concerning marches and manifestations. [16] | BDP | [13] | ||
Leyla Güven | Viranşehir | 29 Dec. 2009 | Sep. 2014 | more than 4 years in prison | BDP | [17] [18] | ||
Ferhat Türk | Kiziltepe | 28 De. 2009 | Feb. 2013 | imprisoned for over 3 years | In relation with the KCK trial | BDP | [19] [8] | |
Yusuf Yilmaz | Patnos | 13 Feb. 2010 | sentenced to 7 years 6 months | For membership in an illegal organization in the KCK-trial [20] | BDP | |||
2014–2019 | ||||||||
Sevil Rojbin Çetin | Edremit | 14 Aug. 2015 | sentenced to 10 years | For membership in a terror organization [21] | DBP | [21] [22] | ||
Dilek Hatipoğlu | Hakkari | 23 Aug. 2015 | sentenced to 15 years. [23] In Sincan prison [24] | After having made declarations of self-rule in August 2015, she was sentenced for disrupting the "unity and integrity of the state" [25] | DBP | [26] | ||
Seyit Narin | Sur | 24 Aug. 2015 [27] | sentenced to 11 years and 3 months, [28] arrested in Rize [29] | prosecuted for terror related charges | DBP | [28] | ||
Diba Keskin | Erçis | 15 Oct. 2015 | sentenced to 13 years, 9 months | DBP | [30] [31] | |||
Leyla Îmret | Cizre | 22 Jan. 2016 | prosecuted, in exile | DBP | [32] [33] | |||
Zeynep Sipçik | Dargeçit | March 2016 | sentenced to 13.5 years. [34] In Sincan prison [22] | Convicted of membership in a terrorist organization [34] | DBP | |||
Hazal Aras | Diyadin | 3 March 2016 | June 2017 | prosecuted | DBP | [35] [36] | ||
Abdullah Çalışkan | Saray | 20 April 2016 [37] | sentenced to 7 years, 6 months | for membership in a terror organization | DBP | [38] | ||
Mehmet Muhdi Aslan | İdil | 25 Sept. 2016 | DBP | [31] | ||||
Abdurrahman Zorlu | Hani | 1 Oct. 2016 | DBP | [31] | ||||
Gültan Kişanak | Diyarbakır | 30 Oct. 2016 | prosecuted | DBP | [39] [40] | |||
Sabite Ekinci | Varto | 10 Nov. 2016 [41] | Imprisoned in Sincan prison. [24] | For membership in a terrorist organization. [42] | DBP | |||
Ahmet Türk | Mardin | Nov. 2016 | Feb 2017 | prosecuted | DBP | [43] [44] | ||
Mehmet Ali Bul | Tunceli | Nov. 2016 | sentenced to 8 years and 9 months | DBP | [28] | |||
Hüseyin Olan | Bitlis | 25 Nov. 2016 | Imprisoned between 2014 and 2022 [45] | DBP | [31] [46] | |||
Halis Çoskun | Malazgirt | 29 Nov. 2016 | sentenced to 12 years imprisonment | DBP | [47] [48] | |||
Ismail Asi | Kiziltepe | 2 Dec. 2016 | prosecuted, arrested in Sakran prison in Izmir | DBP | [49] | |||
Seferi Yılmaz | Semdinli | 6 Dec. 2016 | DBP | [50] | ||||
Mehmet Ali Aydin | Kayapinar | 8 Dec. 2016 | DBP | [51] | ||||
Selim Kurbanoğlu | Yenişehir | 8 Dec. 2016 | DBP | [51] | ||||
Servet Tunc | Çukurka | 8 Dec. 2016 | DBP | [51] | ||||
Tuncer Bakırhan | Siirt | 16 Dec. 2016 | sentenced to 10 years and 15 days imprisonment | DBP | [52] | |||
Fırat Öztürk | Tutak | Jan. 2017 | prosecuted | DBP | [53] | |||
Sara Kaya | Nusaybin | Jan. 2017 | sentenced to 1 year, and another 16 years imprisonment | DBP | [54] [55] | |||
Süleyman Tekin | Ömerli | 5 Jan. 2017 | DBP | [56] | ||||
Celalettin Bartu | Çatak | 5 Jan. 2017 | DBP | [28] | ||||
Zeynel Taş | Bozova | 6 Jan. 2017 | sentenced to 11 years and 10 months imprisonment [57] | DBP | [58] | |||
Sadiye Süer Baran | Kulp | 6 Jan. 2017 | prosecuted | DBP | [59] [60] | |||
Emrullah Cin | Viranşehir | 6 Jan. 2017 | sentenced to 6 years and 3 months imprisonment | DBP | [58] [61] | |||
Murat Ruhat Özbay | Dogubayezit | February 2017 | membership in a terrorist organization | DBP | [62] | |||
Afüllah Kar | Koçaköy | February 2017 | membership for a terrorist organization | DBP | [63] | |||
Bekir Kaya | Van | 11 June 2017 | sentenced to 8 years, 3 Months and another 15 Years imprisonment | DBP | [64] [65] [66] | |||
Rezan Zuĝurlu | Lice | 17 Nov. 2017 | sentenced to 4 years, 2 Months imprisonment | DBP | [67] | |||
Şerafettin Özalp | Özalp | 7 May 2018 | 27 May 2018 | prosecuted | DBP | [68] [69] | ||
2019 - | ||||||||
Mehmet Fatih Taş | Kulp | Sep. 2019 | prosecuted | HDP | [70] | |||
Melike Göksu | Karayazı | Sep. 2019 | prosecuted | HDP | [71] | |||
İrfan Sarı | Yüksekova | 15 Oct. 2019 | prosecuted | HDP | [72] | |||
Adnan Selçuk Mızraklı | Diyarbakır | 21 Oct. 2019 [73] | sentenced to 9 years, 4 months imprisonment. [74] Having been imprisoned in Diyarbakir and Kayseri he is currently in Edirne [75] | Sentenced with being a member of the PKK [74] | HDP | |||
Rojda Nazlıer | Kocaköy | 22 Oct. 2019 | sentenced to 9 years imprisonment | Charged with being a member of the PKK | HDP | [76] [77] | ||
Keziban Yılmaz | Kayapınar | 22 Oct. 2019 | March 2020 [78] | sentenced to 7 years and 6 months but released | HDP | [76] | ||
Azim Yacan | Ipekyolu | Nov. 2019 | prosecuted | HDP | [79] | |||
Hatice Çevik | Suruç | 20 Nov. 2019 | prosecuted | HDP | [80] | |||
Gülistan Öncü | Savur | 26 Nov. 2019 | prosecuted | HDP | [81] | |||
Nalan Özaydın | Mazıdağı | 26 Nov. 2019 | prosecuted | HDP | [81] | |||
Mülkiye Esmez | Derik | 26 Nov. 2019 | prosecuted | HDP | [81] | |||
Yılmaz Şalan | Muradiye | 10 Dec. 2019 | prosecuted | HDP | [82] | |||
Dilan Örenci | Özalp | 10 Dec. 2019 | prosecuted | HDP | [82] | |||
Nilüfer Elik Yılmaz | Kiziltepe | 16 Dez. 2019 | prosecuted | Arrested in Tarsus | HDP | [83] [84] | ||
Feyme Filiz Buluttekin | Sur | 23 Dec. 2019 | sentenced to 7 years and 6 month imprisonment | HDP | [85] [86] | |||
Mustafa Akkul | Eğil | 25 March 2020 | prosecuted | HDP | [87] | |||
Casim Budak | Alınova | 16 May 2020 | prosecuted | HDP | [88] | |||
Yaşar Akkuş | Iğdır | 19 May 2020 | sentenced to 7 years and 6 month imprisonment | HDP | [89] [90] | |||
Ayhan Bilgen | Kars | 2 Oct. 2020 | released pending trial in June 2021 [91] | Charged with organizing the Kobanî protests [92] during the Siege of Kobani by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). | HDP | [92] | ||
Gürbüz Çapan | Esenyurt | 26 Mar. 2004 | 19 May 2004 | Released after 54 days in prison pending trial. [93] | Arrested over corruption and bid rigging allegations; sentenced to prison terms in subsequent trials. | CHP | ||
2024 - 2025 | ||||||||
Hüseyin Sarı | Erdek | 20 Nov. 2019 | 25 Nov. 2019 | Released after serving a brief sentence following conviction. [94] | Convicted for misconduct in office; sentenced to 1 year and 15 days in prison. | CHP | [95] | |
Ahmet Özer | Esenyurt | 31 Oct. 2024 | CHP | |||||
Cevdet Konak | Tunceli | 20 Nov. 2024 | CHP | |||||
Mustafa Sarıgül | Ovacık | 20 Nov. 2024 | CHP | |||||
Rıza Akpolat | Beşiktaş | 13 Jan. 2025 | Charged with establishing and managing a criminal organization | CHP | ||||
Alaattin Köseler | Beykoz | 3 Mar. 2025 | CHP | |||||
Ekrem İmamoğlu | Istanbul | 23 Mar. 2024 | CHP | |||||
Mehmet Murat Çalık | Beylikdüzü | 23 Mar. 2025 | CHP | |||||
Resul Emrah Şahan | Şişli | 23 Mar. 2025 | CHP | |||||
Utku Caner Çaykara | Avcılar | 5 Jun. 2025 | CHP | |||||
Hasan Akgün | Büyükçekmece | 5 Jun. 2025 | CHP | |||||
Hakan Bahçetepe | Gaziosmanpaşa | 5 Jun. 2025 | CHP | |||||
Oya Tekin | Seyhan | 5 Jun. 2025 | CHP | |||||
Kadir Aydar | Ceyhan | 5 Jun. 2025 | CHP | |||||
Muhittin Böcek | Antalya | 5 Jul. 2025 | CHP | |||||
Zeydan Karalar | Adana | 8 Jul. 2025 | CHP | |||||
Niyazi Nefi Kara | Manavgat | 8 Jul. 2025 | CHP |
{{cite web}}
: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link){{cite web}}
: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link){{cite web}}
: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)