In Turkey, 28 mayors and 120 opposition officials have been arrested and removed from office.

Omissions

• The claim does not specify the time period over which these arrests took place. The EU Commission report covers a specific reporting period (approximately mid-2024 to mid-2025), while arrests of opposition figures have been occurring since at least 2016, with close to 150 mayors dismissed since then according to the Council of Europe.
• The '120 opposition officials' figure could not be precisely confirmed; sources mention 'hundreds,' 'more than 100,' and in one specific incident '137 officials,' but no source was found corroborating exactly 120.
• The EU Commission Türkiye 2025 Report was published in late 2025; additional arrests may have occurred between its publication and the session date of 2026-06-16, including three more mayors arrested in July 2025 per France24.

Sources

• PrimaryEuropean Commission – Türkiye 2025 ReportA total of 28 mayors from opposition parties – 18 from the CHP and 10 from the DEM – were arrested and removed from office, with some of them being replaced by state-appointed trustees.
• PrimaryCouncil of Europe – Congress of Local and Regional AuthoritiesSince 2016, close to 150 mayors had already been dismissed and replaced and millions of people have been denied a democratic voice in Türkiye.
• SecondaryTurkish MinuteThe same tally said 28 mayors have been jailed at some point and that 21 CHP mayors were still in jail after the latest arrests.
• SecondaryFrance24Turkey on Saturday arrested three more opposition mayors as part of an investigation into alleged corruption in what the main opposition CHP party called a…