Muğla Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Ahmet Aras and Menteşe Municipality Mayor Gonca Köksal Aras, who got married last year, have parted ways politically. While Ahmet Aras will remain in the CHP and not join the NEW Party, his wife Gonca Köksal Aras, along with 22 council members from Menteşe Municipality, has resigned from the CHP.
Muğla Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Ahmet Aras and Menteşe Municipality Mayor Gonca Köksal Aras, who got married last year, have parted ways politically. While Ahmet Aras will remain in the CHP and not join the NEW Party, his wife Gonca Köksal Aras, along with 22 council members from Menteşe Municipality, has resigned from the CHP.
Menteşe Mayor Gonca Köksal Aras, along with 22 municipal council members, left the CHP and joined the New Party. With her husband, Muğla Metropolitan Mayor Ahmet Aras, remaining in the CHP, the situation now involves two mayors from different parties residing in the same household.