Latest in the series Turkish Interior Ministry suspends 5 mayors and acting mayors
Detained presidential candidate Ekrem İmamoğlu described the arrest of Mersin Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Vahap Seçer as "the desperation of a mindset usurping the national will" and called Erdoğan's politics an "addiction to operations".
İmamoğlu said in a post on the X account called Presidential Candidacy Office that Seçer's arrest was "the final stage of the desperation of the 'profiteering' mindset usurping the national will". He described the Türkiye of Erdoğan's dreams as "a country of operations".
