Mayor's Dismal Legacy Dies a Slow Death

türkçe links to original Turkish article

(Posta Newspaper, 15 February 2018)


After resignation, returned to his real profession -
used car salesman...certainly looks the part.

corruption's poster boy see TNT reporting on Keleş 
padding the city payroll with relatives.

The former AKP mayor of Düzce, Mehmet Keleş, took office in
March, 2014.  Three months later, he purchased an Audi A8
automobile for 650,000 TL (about $200,000), despite the
municipality's 150 million TL debt, explaining that "everyone
else comes in an Audi, should I show up in a Passat?!"

In October, at the 'request' of President Erdoğan, Keleş  resigned
and his successor, Dursun Aydan, has not used the Audi.  In fact,
the luxury car has been turned over to the subcontractor firm that
handles the city's sanitation, to settle a debt to the firm of
600,000 TL.