In İzmir's Çeşme district, 11 people, including the deputy mayor and unit managers, were detained in the operation carried out by gendarmerie teams on allegations of irregularities, bribery and extortion in some zoning and tender processes in the municipality.
According to the news in İHA; An operation was carried out against Çeşme Municipality within the scope of the investigation carried out by the Izmir Provincial Gendarmerie Command TEM Branch Directorate, under the coordination of the Çeşme Chief Public Prosecutor's Office.
The operation against 12 suspects within the scope of the crimes of "establishing, managing and being a member of a criminal organization", "bribery", "extortion" and "forgery of official documents" was held simultaneously in Izmir at 06.30 on October 7, 2026.
It was learned that the investigation was initiated on October 5, 2026, upon a notice that some documents belonging to the Çeşme Municipality Planning and Urbanization Directorate were tried to be burned and destroyed by a cleaning worker working in the municipality.
While Çeşme District Gendarmerie Command teams were caught red-handed during the incident, the investigations revealed that the instruction to destroy the documents in question was given by Çeşme Municipality Deputy Director of Zoning and Urbanization, Buğçe Sağlamer.
It was determined that there was an ongoing investigation against Buğçe Sağlamer at the Çeşme Chief Public Prosecutor's Office on charges of bribery, extortion, forgery of official documents and establishing and managing a criminal organization.
8 SUSPECTS WERE TAKEN INTO CUSTODY
As a result of the evaluation of similar investigation files carried out within the Chief Public Prosecutor's Office, findings were reached that the suspects participated in the crimes in question, and the decision to operate was taken upon assessment that there was a possibility of losing evidence if intervention was not made.
In the operation carried out by the Izmir Provincial Gendarmerie Command TEM Branch Directorate teams;
Çeşme Deputy Mayor Emre Can Durmaz,
Furkan Yiğit, Deputy Director of Technical Affairs,
Buğçe Sağlamer, Deputy Director of Zoning and Urbanization,
Çağlayan Bingöl, Deputy Director of Real Estate and Expropriation,
ÇEŞTUR office officers Deniz Songül Yalçın and Aziz Metin,
office management personnel Aydin Aydemir,
with civil engineer Okan Aktaş
business owners Yücel Güngör, Metin Akpınar and
Real estate agent Şahin Özer was caught and detained.
It was learned that former Çeşme Deputy Mayor Onur Gülin, one of the suspects in the file, is currently detained in prison due to another investigation.
THE COMPLAINT THAT STARTED THE OPERATION
A new detail emerged in the details of the investigation. It was learned that the operation against the municipality was initiated upon the criminal complaint filed by Efe Sağlamer, who works in Çeşme Municipality, to the prosecutor's office against his wife, Deputy Director of Zoning and Urbanization Buğçe Sağlamer, who is in the process of divorce.
DEVELOPMENT, SCIENTIFIC WORKS AND REAL ESTATE PROCESSES ARE BEING EXAMINED
The detained suspects; It was claimed that they used the zoning, technical works and real estate processes in the municipality to gain unfair profits through bribery and extortion, improperly prepared official documents and tried to destroy the evidence subject to the investigation.
During the searches carried out at the residences and workplaces of the suspects and the relevant units in the municipality, a large number of digital materials and documents were seized.
It was reported that the investigation carried out by the Çeşme Chief Public Prosecutor's Office continues meticulously in order to reveal all aspects of criminal connections.
