Türkiye's Istanbul Governor's Office announced that deputy mayor elections to replace Eyüpsultan Mayor Mithat Bülent Özmen and Ataşehir Deputy Mayor Murat Güneş, who were arrested and suspended from duty, will be held on Oct. 10.
The Eyüpsultan Municipal Council will meet on Oct. 10 at 2 p.m., and the Ataşehir Municipal Council will meet the same day at 10 a.m. Both men had been arrested on Oct. 5 in investigations over alleged bribery and organizational crimes, and had been suspended from duty by a ministry approval on Oct. 6.
