Turkish police detain Erdal Beşikçioğlu, mayor of Etimesgut in Ankara, and hold 52 people after raids led by the Ankara West Chief Public Prosecutor's Office into alleged municipal corruption.Prosecutors charge detainees with embezzlement, bribery, extortion, forgery and tender‑rigging tied to procurement, parking leases and zoning; they earlier jailed Sinem Dedetaş, the Republican People’s Party mayor of Üsküdar, on related counts.The operations follow internal splits inside the
Republican People’s Party, as Özgür Özel forms the
New Party and claims hundreds of mayors and dozens of legislators have pledged support, intensifying a political fight over local control.