The Cankaya Mayor said in a post on his social media profile that he is currently out of town but will be in Ankara in a few hours, according to CNN Turk. “I have informed all relevant authorities of this. I also provided a spare key to the teams who came to search my home, and I asked all my colleagues to cooperate with the security forces. I want all our neighbors to know that since we took office, we have managed this institution in the best possible way and that we have never done anything that would disappoint anyone who has placed their trust in us,” CNN Turk quoted the Mayor as saying.

Cankaya is the central and most prestigious district of the Turkish capital, home to government agencies and foreign embassies. With a population reaching 2 million people, including daily visitors, Cankaya is Ankara’s largest municipality and the country’s third biggest after Esenyurt in Istanbul and Sahinbey in Gaziantep Province. It has been governed by Mayor Huseyin Can Guner of CHP since the local elections in 2024. In 2025, Cankaya was declared the most developed municipality by the Turkish Ministry of Industry and Technology.