More than 120 members of the municipality of Izmir, an opposition stronghold on Turkey's western coast, have been arrested for "corruption", according to Turkish media and the Republican People's Party (CHP).

Murat Bakan, vice-president of the CHP, the main opposition party that has long ruled the country's third-largest city, told X that the former mayor and several "senior officials" of the municipality had been arrested, just over three months after a similar operation targeted the Istanbul municipality.

Tunc Soyer, former mayor of Smyrna (Izmir) elected between 2019 and 2024 with the largest party of

opposition to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the CHP, was arrested on charges of "fraud" and "fraud" while arrest warrants were issued for 157 other people, including the chairman of the provincial branch of the CHP Senol Aslanoglu and other members of the political force, as part of the same investigation.

The investigation was launched by the prosecutor's office in Izmir, Turkey's third largest city, and those arrested are accused of being involved in bid-rigging. The investigation

It comes a few months after the arrest of Ekrem Imamoglu, the mayor of Istanbul considered Erdogan's main rival and elected with the CHP twice and suspended from office after being

was arrested for corruption.

(Online Union)

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