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2025 in Turkey

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Individuals and events related to 2025 in Turkey.

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January

  • 13 January – Riza Akpolat, the CHP mayor of Beşiktaş, Istanbul Province, is arrested as part of an investigation into alleged bid-rigging, bribery and unjust acquisition of property.[1]
  • 16 January – At least 30 people are reported to have died across Istanbul after consuming bootleg alcohol.[2] By 17 February, the death toll reaches 124, with cases also reported in Ankara.[3]
  • 20 January – Ümit Özdağ, the leader of the Victory Party, is arrested on charges of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and inciting violence on social media during the 2024 anti-refugee riots in Turkey.[4]
  • 21 January –
  • 25 January – Two people are killed in the collapse of an apartment building in Konya.[7]
  • 28 January – Serhan Asker, the chief editor of Halk TV, is detained along with two other journalists after the station airs a phone conversation with a court-appointed expert accused of bias against mayors belonging to the CHP.[8]
  • 29 January – Sofya Alagas, the DEM mayor of Siirt, is removed from her position after a conviction for terrorism offenses connected with accusations of her supporting the PKK.[8]
  • 31 January – Five alumni of the Turkish Military Academy are dismissed along with three other officers from the Turkish Armed Forces for reciting an unauthorized secularist oath at their graduation ceremony in 2024.[9]

February

  • 6 February – Turkey withdraws its accreditation of Afghan diplomats representing the pre-2021 government.[10]
  • 11 February – Ten CHP district municipal officials from Kartal and Ataşehir in Istanbul Province are arrested on suspicion of links to the PKK.[11]
  • 13–18 February – Around 282 people are arrested in nationwide raids in 51 cities on suspicion of having links with the PKK.[12]
  • 19 February – An inflatable dinghy carrying migrants sinks off the coast of Selçuk, killing at least six people.[13]
  • 27 February – PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan issues a message from prison calling for the group to hold a congress dissolving itself and laying down its weapons.[14]

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