List of arrested mayors in Turkey
The following is an incomplete list of arrested mayors in Turkey.
Mayor | District | Arrested | Released | Status | Charge | Party | Source |
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Mehdi Zana | Diyarbakır | March 1980 | 1992 | released | Independent | [1] | |
1999–2009 | |||||||
Feridun Çelik | Diyarbakır | Feb. 2000 | 28 Feb. 2000 | released | For allegedly supporting the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). | HADEP | [2][3] |
Selim Özalp | Siirt | Feb. 2000 | Feb. 2000 | released | For allegedly supporting the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). | HADEP | [2][4] |
Feyzullah Karaaslan | Bingöl | Feb. 2000 | Feb. 2000 | released | For allegedly supporting the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). | HADEP | [2][4] |
2009–2014 | |||||||
Ferit Çelik | Karliova | 5 April 2012 | sentenced to 8 years | Sentenced for aiding and abetting the PKK[5] | BDP | [6][5] | |
Abdullah Demirbaş | Sur | Dec. 2009 | May 2010 | released on medical grounds | Among other charges were "using the Kurdish language in his official capacity"[7] | BDP | [8][7] |
Aydin Budak | Cizre | 23-24 Dec. 2009 | sentenced to 7 years and 6 months | BDP | [9][10] | ||
Zülküf Karatekin | Kayapınar | 23-24 Dec. 2009 | sentenced to 9 years | for being “member of an organization“[11] during a trial of members of the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) | BDP | [10] | |
Nejdet Atalay | Batman | 23-24 Dec. 2009 | sentenced to 1 year and 8 months | Sentenced for calling Members of the PKK "warriors of the Kurdish people in mountains"[12] | BDP | [10] | |
Etem Şahin | Suruç | 23-24 Dec. 2009 | sentenced to 1 year and 9 months | For speaking Kurdish during his election campaign and violated the law concerning marches and manifestations.[13] | BDP | [10] | |
Leyla Güven | Viranşehir | 29 Dec. 2009 | Sep. 2014 | more than 4 years in prison | BDP | [14][15] | |
Yusuf Yilmaz | Patnos | 13 Feb. 2010 | sentenced to 7 years 6 months | For membership in an illegal organization in the KCK-trial[16] | BDP | ||
2014–2019 | |||||||
Sevil Rojbin Çetin | Edremit | 14 Aug. 2015 | sentenced to 10 years | For membership in a terror organization[17] | DBP | [17][18] | |
Dilek Hatipoğlu | Hakkari | 23 Aug. 2015 | sentenced to 15 years | After having made declarations of self-rule in August 2015, she was sentenced for disrupting the "unity and integrity of the state"[19] | DBP | [20] | |
Diba Keskin | Erçis | 15 Oct. 2015 | sentenced to13 years, 9 months | DBP | [21][22] | ||
Leyla Îmret | Cizre | 22 Jan. 2016 | prosecuted, in exile | DBP | [23][24] | ||
Zeynep Sipçik | Dargeçit | March 2016 | sentenced to 13 years | DBP | [25] | ||
Hazal Aras | Diyadin | 3 March 2016 | June 2017 | prosecuted | DBP | [26][27] | |
Mehmet Muhdi Aslan | İdil | 25 Sept. 2016 | DBP | [22] | |||
Abdurrahman Zorlu | Hani | 1 Oct. 2016 | DBP | [22] | |||
Gültan Kişanak | Diyarbakır | 30 Oct. 2016 | prosecuted | DBP | [28][29] | ||
Sabite Ekinci | Varto | 10 Nov. 2016 | DBP | [30] | |||
Ahmet Türk | Mardin | Nov. 2016 | Feb 2017 | prosecuted | DBP | [31][32] | |
Hüseyin Olan | Bitlis | 25 Nov. 2016 | 7 years, 6 months imprisonment | DBP | [22][33] | ||
Halis Çoskun | Malazgirt | 29 Nov. 2016 | sentenced to 12 years imprisonment | DBP | [34][35] | ||
Seferi Yılmaz | Semdinli | 6 Dec. 2016 | DBP | [36] | |||
Mehmet Ali Aydin | Kayapinar | 8 Dec. 2016 | DBP | [37] | |||
Selim Kurbanoğlu | Yenişehir | 8 Dec. 2016 | DBP | [37] | |||
Servet Tunc | Çukurka | 8 Dec. 2016 | DBP | [37] | |||
Mehmet Ali Aydın | Kayapınar | 8 Dec. 2016 | DBP | [38] | |||
Tuncer Bakırhan | Siirt | 16 Dec. 2016 | sentenced to 10 years and 15 days imprisonment | DBP | [39] | ||
Sara Kaya | Nusaybin | Jan. 2017 | sentenced to 1 year,
and another 16 years imprisonment |
DBP | [40][41] | ||
Süleyman Tekin | Ömerli | 5 Jan. 2017 | prosecuted | DBP | [42] | ||
Zeynel Taş | Bozova | 6 Jan. 2017 | sentenced to 11 years and 10 months imprisonment[43] | DBP | [44] | ||
Sadiye Süer Baran | Kulp | 6 Jan. 2017 | DBP | [45] | |||
Emrullah Cin | Viranşehir | 6 Jan. 2017 | sentenced to 6 years and 3 months imprisonment | DBP | [44][46] | ||
Bekir Kaya | Van | 11 June 2017 | sentenced to 8 years, 3 Months
and another 15 Years imprisonment |
DBP | [47][48][49] | ||
Rezan Zuĝurlu | Lice | 17 Nov. 2017 | sentenced to 4 years, 2 Months imprisonment | DBP | [50] | ||
Şerafettin Özalp | Özalp | 7 May 2018 | 27 May 2018 | prosecuted | DBP | [51][52] | |
2019 - | |||||||
Mehmet Fatih Taş | Kulp | Sep. 2019 | prosecuted | HDP | [53] | ||
Melike Göksu | Karayazı | Sep. 2019 | prosecuted | HDP | [54] | ||
İrfan Sarı | Yüksekova | 15 Oct. 2019 | prosecuted | HDP | [55] | ||
Adnan Selçuk Mızraklı | Diyarbakır | 21 Oct. 2019 | sentenced to 9 years, 4 months imprisonment | Charged with being a member of the PKK | HDP | [56][57] | |
Rojda Nazlıer | Kocaköy | 22 Oct. 2019 | sentenced to 9 years imprisonment | Charged with being a member of the PKK | HDP | [58][59] | |
Keziban Yılmaz | Kayapınar | 22 Oct. 2019 | prosecuted | HDP | [58] | ||
Azim Yacan | Ipekyolu | Nov. 2019 | prosecuted | HDP | [60] | ||
Hatice Çevik | Suruç | 20 Nov. 2019 | prosecuted | HDP | [61] | ||
Gülistan Öncü | Savur | 26 Nov. 2019 | prosecuted | HDP | [62] | ||
Nalan Özaydın | Mazıdağı | 26 Nov. 2019 | prosecuted | HDP | [62] | ||
Mülkiye Esmez | Derik | 26 Nov. 2019 | prosecuted | HDP | [62] | ||
Yılmaz Şalan | Muradiye | 10 Dec. 2019 | prosecuted | HDP | [63] | ||
Dilan Örenci | Özalp | 10 Dec. 2019 | prosecuted | HDP | [63] | ||
Nilüfer Elik Yılmaz | Kiziltepe | 16 Dez. 2019 | prosecuted | Arrested in Tarsus | HDP | [64][65] | |
Feyme Filiz Buluttekin | Sur | 23 Dec. 2019 | sentenced to 7 years and 6 month imprisonment | HDP | [66][67] | ||
Mustafa Akkul | Eğil | 25 March 2020 | prosecuted | HDP | [68] | ||
Casim Budak | Alınova | 16 May 2020 | prosecuted | HDP | [69] | ||
Yaşar Akkuş | Iğdır | 19 May 2020 | sentenced to 7 years and 6 month imprisonment | HDP | [70][71] | ||
Ayhan Bilgen | Kars | 2 October 2020 | released pending trial in June 2021[72] | Charged with organizing the Kobanî protests[73] during the Siege of Kobani by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). | HDP | [73] |
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