İzmir's centre-left mayor joins Erdoğan's AK Party, shocking Turkish opposition

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İzmir's centre-left mayor joins Erdoğan's AK Party, shocking Turkish opposition

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İzmir Mayor Cemil Tugay has joined President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s AK Party, leaving the centre-left CHP. The move is a major political shift in Turkey’s third-largest city, where the CHP had governed for 27 years.

Cemil Tugay, who won İzmir for the CHP with a 314,000-vote margin in 2024, received his AK Party badge from Erdoğan in Ankara on Wednesday, ending 27 years of centre-left rule in Turkey's third-largest city.

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