Mansur Yavaş

Ankara Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Mansur Yavaş described his resignation process from the CHP to Nefes newspaper. Asked "Will you join the AK Party?", he replied, "Look at those sentences in my resignation text."…

Mansur Yavaş criticized the detention of three mayors in Mersin, saying they should have been invited to testify. 59 people were detained in the operation.…

Following the resignation of Ankara Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Mansur Yavaş from the CHP, party officials said Yavaş could return to the party in the future.…

Ankara Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Mansur Yavaş offered condolences for Ali Şekeroğlu, a 60-year-old retired police officer who lost his life during a retirees' protest in front of the Constitutional Court.…

Ankara Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Mansur Yavaş announced he has ended his CHP membership. Yavaş said he will continue his political work independently.…

YENİ Party leader Özgür Özel called Ankara Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Mansur Yavaş, who resigned from CHP, to congratulate him. Özel said they respect the decisions of municipal leaders.…

MHP leader Devlet Bahçeli asked whether television broadcasts about Mansur Yavaş's resignation were overshadowing President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's UN speech and US visit.…

Seven district mayors in Ankara resigned from CHP following Mansur Yavaş. CHP's Müslim Sarı had said that the mayors must make their affiliation clear.…

Ankara Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Mansur Yavaş announced his resignation from the CHP and said his resignation was unrelated to the presidential election. Yavaş said he decided he "could not stay even a minute" after the words of the party's spokesperson Müslim Sarı.…

Journalist Sinan Burhan reported that Anahtar Party leader Yavuz Ağıralioğlu could support Ankara Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Mansur Yavaş if a semi-presidential or parliamentary system is adopted, and that they would not meet on the same ground with former İBB President Ekrem İmamoğlu. He said a consensus has formed on Yavaş among nationalist parties.…

YENİ Party leader Özgür Özel told T24 that Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (İBB) Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu is a candidate "as long as he can legally be a candidate" and that Mansur Yavaş's candidacy is also "a very important option". Özel said, "They will do everything to prevent Mayor Ekrem from being a candidate"; he stated that he was informed in advance of Yavaş's meeting with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on September 9.…