There has been a new development in the corruption and bribery investigation carried out by the Silivri Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office against Silivri Municipality. Within the scope of the investigation, irregularities regarding zoning, license and settlement in Silivri Municipality and the bribery scheme were exposed. According to the statement given by a suspect who benefited from effective remorse provisions, it was determined that Silivri Mayor Bora Balcıoğlu exchanged a large amount of bribe money at various foreign exchange offices through his Private Secretary Aşkın Kaynar and his driver Serdar Tuna. It was determined that some of the laundered bribe money was sent directly to CHP Silivri District Chairman Doruk Bulut. CHP Silivri District Chairman Doruk Bulut was detained.

PUBLIC DAMAGE OF 21.5 MILLION TL!

According to the findings reflected in the expert reports, it was revealed how the organization in charge of Silivri Municipality wasted public resources. It has been documented that a public loss of 21,522,717.40 TL was caused as a result of the sale of a valuable non-registered property belonging to the municipality, which was a park area, at a low price. In addition, it was determined that there were organized irregularities in the recruitment of personnel to the municipality, business transfer and rental transactions, granting of zoning and licenses, irregular removal of seals, turning a blind eye to illegal buildings and municipal real estate sales processes.

MAYOR BALCIOĞLU WAS SUSPENDED FROM HIS OFFICE BY THE MINISTRY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS

Silivri Mayor Bora Balcıoğlu, who was arrested on June 15, 2026, was suspended from office as a temporary measure by the Ministry of Internal Affairs in accordance with Article 127 of the Constitution and Article 47 of the Municipality Law No. 5393.

According to the statement made on the ministry’s virtual media account; During the inspections, 26 thousand 236 personnel and 8 thousand 785 teams from the Immigration Administration, police, gendarmerie and Coast Guard units participated; 25 organizers, including 3 foreign nationals, were detained.

355 IRREGULAR MIGRANTS CAUGHT

In addition, 355 irregular immigrants were caught during the inspections where the identity of 427 thousand 968 people was checked. Within the scope of the study; A total of 14 thousand 142 places were checked, including 3 thousand 795 abandoned buildings, 7 thousand 447 public places, 449 terminals and 2 thousand 451 other places. Procedures to repatriate the identified irregular immigrants have been initiated.

In our inspections against migrant smuggling organizers and irregular migration in 81 provinces;

-25 migrant smuggling organizers, 3 of whom are foreign nationals,
-355 irregular immigrants were caught during the inspections where the identity of 427 thousand 968 people was checked.️

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— TR Ministry of Internal Affairs (@TC_icisleri) July 22, 2026

There has been a new development in the corruption and bribery investigation carried out by the Silivri Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office against Silivri Municipality. Within the scope of the investigation, irregularities regarding zoning, license and settlement in Silivri Municipality and the bribery scheme were exposed. According to the statement given by a suspect who benefited from effective remorse provisions, it was determined that Silivri Mayor Bora Balcıoğlu exchanged a large amount of bribe money at various foreign exchange offices through his Private Secretary Aşkın Kaynar and his driver Serdar Tuna. It was determined that some of the laundered bribe money was sent directly to CHP Silivri District Chairman Doruk Bulut. CHP Silivri District Chairman Doruk Bulut was detained.

PUBLIC DAMAGE OF 21.5 MILLION TL!

According to the findings reflected in the expert reports, it was revealed how the organization in charge of Silivri Municipality wasted public resources. It has been documented that a public loss of 21,522,717.40 TL was caused as a result of the sale of a valuable non-registered property belonging to the municipality, which was a park area, at a low price. In addition, it was determined that there were organized irregularities in the recruitment of personnel to the municipality, business transfer and rental transactions, granting of zoning and licenses, irregular removal of seals, turning a blind eye to illegal buildings and municipal real estate sales processes.

MAYOR BALCIOĞLU WAS SUSPENDED FROM HIS OFFICE BY THE MINISTRY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS

Silivri Mayor Bora Balcıoğlu, who was arrested on June 15, 2026, was suspended from office as a temporary measure by the Ministry of Internal Affairs in accordance with Article 127 of the Constitution and Article 47 of the Municipality Law No. 5393.

Work at Trabzon City Hospital, planned as the new health base of the Black Sea, continues at full speed on a 24/7 basis with approximately a thousand people. Electrical-mechanical manufacturing and facade manufacturing in 4 blocks of the hospital, built on a closed area of ​​285 thousand square meters, have been completed. The hospital, which will double the intensive care capacity in the city, will have 300 outpatient clinics and 33 operating rooms. The hospital has a total bed capacity of 900, 236 of which will be intensive care and 664 will be single beds. The city hospital, whose construction was completed using 5,200 bored piles, will be protected against earthquakes with 762 seismic isolators installed.

ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION IS BEING DONE
Trabzon Provincial Health Director Mehmet Topsakal said, “The physical completion rate in the construction of our city hospital has now reached 97.5 percent. Our priority is to get the concrete plants on the north side of the hospital from there. The infrastructure of the road that will connect the road passing from the north to the hospital has been built. This road is important for us in two ways. First, it will provide great support to the evacuation and entry and exit of the hospital, especially during the match in the stadium next door. The league will start in one and a half months. The road must be opened as soon as possible. We will hold a coordination meeting and that “We will meet with the contractor to remove the concrete plant from there as soon as possible and ensure its recovery,” he said. Topsakal said, “So far, there does not appear to be any structure that will prevent the delay in hospital construction. As I mentioned, landscaping of the construction remains. Our goal is to open our city hospital in November this year.”

In line with the statement given by a suspect who benefited from effective remorse provisions within the scope of the corruption and bribery investigation launched by the Silivri Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office against Silivri Municipality, it was revealed that a large amount of bribe money, which was exchanged at various foreign exchange offices by Silivri Mayor Balcıoğlu’s Private Secretary Aşkın Kaynar and his driver Serdar Tuna, was sent to CHP Silivri District Chairman Doruk Bulut.

In the expert report entered into the investigation file while Bulut was taken into custody, a public loss of 21.5 million lira was documented. On the other hand, CHP Silivri Municipal Council Member Aykut Batur, who was arrested during the investigation, was released within the scope of effective remorse provisions.

THEY PREPARED

According to the findings reflected in the expert reports; It was determined that a public loss in the amount of 21 million 522 thousand 717 liras and 40 kuruş was caused as a result of the sale of a valuable non-registered real estate belonging to the municipality, which was a park area, at a low price. In addition, it was determined that there were organized irregularities in the recruitment of personnel to the municipality, business transfer and rental transactions, granting of zoning and licenses, irregular removal of seals, turning a blind eye to illegal buildings and municipal real estate sales processes.

Silivri Mayor Bora Balcıoğlu, who was arrested on June 15, 2026, was suspended from office.

“Van Lake Basin Common Mind Platform for the Future / Van Lake Basin Sustainable Future Workshop”, organized in cooperation with Zero Waste Foundation, Van Governorship, Bitlis Governorship, Van Yüzüncü Yıl University, Bitlis Eren University and Van and Bitlis Provincial Directorates of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change, has been completed. The final declaration prepared after two days of thematic table studies and evaluation sessions was shared with the public.

The workshop was held under the auspices and vision of Emine Erdoğan, Founder of the Zero Waste Movement and Chairperson of the UN Zero Waste High-Level Personalities Advisory Board; It brought together a total of 325 participants from 2 cities, 14 ministries, 40 general directorates, academics, non-governmental organizations and the private sector in 1 basin.

The workshop final declaration included the establishment of the basin management model. It was recommended that the “Van Lake Basin Digital Management Center Supreme Council” with an independent budget be activated and a 1/25,000 scale master zoning plan be prepared.

EKOZEKA SYSTEM WILL BE ESTABLISHED

Within the scope of digital transformation, it was recommended to establish the “EKOZEKA VAN” system for data-oriented monitoring and to monitor the basin in an integrated manner with digital twin technologies.

While Minister of Agriculture and Forestry İbrahim Yumaklı said, “Van Closed Basin Master Plan will form the road map for the coming years,” Zero Waste Foundation President Samed Ağırbaş stated that they will present their will to the world as a “good practice example” at the UN COP31 Summit.