Who Was Mehmet Akkuş, the DEM Party Co-Mayor of Ağrı?
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- Mehmet Akkuş, co-mayor of Ağrı from Turkey’s DEM Party, died at age 57 after a period of cancer treatment.
- Born in Ağrı in 1969, he held positions with DEHAP and the HDP before becoming a DEM Party candidate in the 2024 local elections.
- Akkuş was married and had five children.
Mehmet Akkuş, the DEM Party co-mayor of Ağrı, has died at the age of 57 after undergoing cancer treatment for some time at Ağrı Training and Research Hospital.
Akkuş was born in Ağrı in 1969. After leaving prison in 1992, he moved to Istanbul and joined the Istanbul administration of DEHAP. He later served as an Ağrı provincial administrator and provincial chair of the HDP in 2015.
He ran as the HDP’s co-mayor candidate in the 2019 local elections. In the 2024 local elections, he stood as the DEM Party’s co-mayor candidate and took office as Ağrı’s co-mayor after the March 31 vote.
Akkuş was married and had five children.
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