Mayor elected with more than 71% of DEM votes joins AKP, then municipality puts 12 businesses up for tender
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- Türkan Kayır, elected İdil mayor with 71.27% of the DEM Party vote and later expelled, joined the AKP on Aug. 14 after Recep Tayyip Erdoğan presented her with the party badge.
- One week after her move to the AKP, the municipality’s executive council decided to tender 12 municipally owned businesses for two years.
Türkan Kayır, elected mayor of İdil with 71.27% of the vote as a DEM Party candidate, joined the AKP on Aug. 14 after being expelled from the DEM Party.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan presented Kayır with her AKP badge. The municipality she leads then drew attention with a tender decision made only one week after her move to the governing party.
Under a decision by the municipal executive council, 12 businesses owned by the municipality were put out to tender for a two-year period.
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Originally published by Cumhuriyet in Turkish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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