
Izmir Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Cemil Tugay, who resigned from CHP, is joining AKP. Tugay was seen side by side with Erdoğan.
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Izmir Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Cemil Tugay resigned from CHP on June 18.
Izmir Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Cemil Tugay, who resigned from CHP on June 18 and has been serving independently for about 4 months, is joining the AKP.
Tugay was seen sitting side by side with AKP President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan at the opening meeting of the new legislative year held at the AKP Congress Center.
The first meeting of the new legislative period, held by Erdoğan at the AKP Congress Center, started at 11:00. Before the meeting, Cemil Tugay came to the AKP Headquarters and said in his first statement, "I love Izmir very much."
An Izmir-themed video using the Izmir March was published on AKP's X account yesterday, and the date "7 October" was included at the end of the video. The hourglass symbol used in the post also attracted attention.
NEW Party Chairman Özgür Özel, on the other hand, reacted to the allegations that Izmir Mayor Cemil Tugay would join the AKP and the AKP's post using the Izmir Anthem, and said, "You have never won Izmir at the ballot box, you will never win."
Cemil Tugay met with President Erdoğan at the Palace in Beştepe on September 30.
After the closed-door meeting, Tugay announced that he had provided Erdoğan with information about the important issues on Izmir's agenda and projects for the future of the city.

Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Abdulkadir Uraloğlu announced that the construction of the 220.85 kilometer urban rail system line in 9 provinces across Türkiye continues and the total length will reach 1054.7 kilometers in 2026.

At the opening meeting of the AK Party's legislative year, President Erdoğan evaluated the export records, the decrease in inflation and the fund investigation and said, "The only port of our politics is morality."

Referring to the fund investigation at the AK Party Group Meeting, President Erdoğan said that the process was carried out meticulously, administrative steps were taken to pay the savings of small investors and that the only harbor of politics is morality.

Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Abdulkadir Uraloğlu announced that the length of urban rail system lines across Türkiye reached 1054.7 kilometers in 2026 and the construction of a 220.85 kilometer line in 9 provinces is continuing.

Allegations that Izmir Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Cemil Tugay will join the AK Party after his resignation from CHP, statements of New Party Chairman Özgür Özel, Tugay's denial of these allegations and his meeting with President Erdoğan on September 30.
President Erdoğan stated that they are closely monitoring the situation of investors and payments in the fund investigation and said that those who make unfair profits will be held accountable.