Mersin and Istanbul Mayors Detained, Alleged Effort to Hide Fund Stealing

While we were watching the developments regarding the fund fraud, which broke out on September 16 and seems to have been going on systematically for a long time, a friend of ours said:

“Man, this business is growing, they will definitely take precautions.”

- What precautions do you think they will take?

“You will see, they will change the agenda by the end of the week.”

- Maybe, but they need to find a bigger event to cover this incident and convince the public!

An important operation that could affect the agenda started before the weekend. The President of the Union of Municipalities of Turkey and the Mayor of Mersin Metropolitan Municipality, Vahap Seçer, along with the Mayor of Yenişehir, two important districts of Mersin, Abdullah Özyiğit and the Mayor of Mezitli, Ahmet Serkan, were detained along with 56 people.

A vague accusation:

Causing harm to the public!

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The government is making a dual effort regarding fund profiteering:

1- To create a road map that will convince 455 thousand 758 victims and ensure that they do not raise their voices. It was announced that the first 1 million lira would be paid in the first phase, but there is no time!

2- To ensure that the incident is investigated only around the companies, without touching the AKP and its surroundings. To put those whose names have been disclosed into "a completely individual, momentary heedlessness of following the devil."

This was the atmosphere of the government's semi-official and fully official media organs yesterday.

However, a spear doesn't fit into a sack and robbery doesn't fit into the stock market. It carries.

In such an environment, the Mersin operation began.

We have known Vahap Seçer for years. He passed from the parliamentary ranks to the Mersin Metropolitan Municipality Mayor with 60 percent public support. Mersin is the photo of Turkey. It reflects the land and human wealth of our country. I will never forget, years ago, when my dear brother Ahmet Yorgun invited me to the conference, he talked about the abundance of fellow citizens' associations in Mersin. One of them was called:

Association of Mardin People Migrating from Adana to Mersin!

Mersin is a fertile city that opens to the world, especially the Middle East, and Anatolia through the Taurus Mountains, with its port. Hoşyar Sarıyıldız from DEM Party won Mersin's district Akdeniz Municipality in the elections of March 31, 2024. He was arrested in November 2025 and appointed as district governor trustee. MHP is also strong in the neighboring district of Akdeniz.

In short, Vahap Seçer is a president who has gained general acceptance from all parties. There is a wide spectrum of social municipalism, from neighborhood kitchens to district nurseries, from producer support packages to integration centers for Syrians, whose official number exceeds 300 thousand. We also walked along the long and wide pedestrian coastal path.

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While we were discussing the dilemma of whether the Mersin operation would cover up the fund theft or not, news of the operation against Istanbul Eyüpsultan Mayor Mithat Bülent Özmen came yesterday morning. Özmen is an expert manager who has trained himself very well. It is one of the values ​​that Ekrem İmamoğlu brought to politics.

He presides by appealing to all the characteristics of Eyüpsultan.

A dual situation, which we emphasize from time to time in terms of mayors, occurred within 24 hours. On the evening of September 30, Izmir Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Cemil Tugay was at the Palace, and on the morning of October 1, Mersin Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Vahap Seçer was taken from his home and taken to the Police Station!

Tugay resigned from his membership in the Social Democracy Association Izmir Branch the other day. We asked the branch president, Cengiz Onur, and he confirmed it.

The table is in the middle; Either badge or handcuffs!

In fact, there is a situation that can be described as fund profiteering. It is being discussed that the district operations in Istanbul are aimed at taking over the metropolitan city step by step, as if a very democratic right is being exercised!

Isn't the result of municipal operations a plunder of national will?