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Graft probe into Adana’s Çukurova municipality: 44 detained, including Mayor Emrah Kozay
Gendarmerie forces carried out a morning operation as part of an Adana Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office corruption investigation into Çukurova Municipality. Of 51 people facing detention orders, 44 were detained, including Mayor Emrah Kozay and former Mayor Soner Çetin.
Gendarmerie teams carried out an operation on Monday morning as part of a corruption investigation into Çukurova Municipality in Adana. Detention orders were issued for 51 people in the investigation led by the Adana Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office.
Teams from the Provincial Gendarmerie Command launched simultaneous raids in the morning at the municipal building and numerous other addresses. After securing the area in front of the municipal building, they searched the premises.
Mayor Kozay and former mayor Çetin detained
According to the DHA news agency, 44 of the 51 suspects named in the detention orders were caught. Those detained include Çukurova Mayor Emrah Kozay and former mayor Soner Çetin, a deputy secretary-general of the CHP. Efforts are continuing to locate the remaining seven suspects.
The detainees were taken to the gendarmerie command for questioning. No official statement has yet been made on the scope of the investigation or the charges against the suspects.
Kozay switched to the YENİ Party in August
Emrah Kozay, who took office as the CHP’s candidate in the 2024 local elections, announced on Aug. 7, 2026, that he had resigned from the CHP and would continue his political work in the YENİ Party. Soner Çetin served as mayor of Çukurova before Kozay.
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