Kocaeli Municipality: ”Our colleagues were beaten, the appreciation belongs to our people” – Last Seal

During the road work carried out in Izmit Tavşantepe District, there was tension between Kocaeli Metropolitan Municipality and Izmit Municipality teams due to ‘jurisdiction’.

”We have run out of patience”

Izmit Mayor Fatma Kaplan Hürriyet made a statement on social media and said, “We have run out of patience at this point. Metropolitan teams are attacking our teams. Despite our calls for reconciliation, we have come to a point where we have gone beyond these blocking tactics and they are resorting to physical violence.” “And I do not accept targeting our employee in this way. You will pay the price for this incident. We will use our legal rights to the fullest.”

”Our colleagues were beaten, the credit belongs to our people”

Kocaeli Metropolitan Municipality responded to the statements of Izmit Mayor Fatma Kaplan Hürriyet by posting a post titled “No Comment”. The following statements were used in the post, which included the video in which Hürriyet’s discussion moments were also seen: “Our colleagues, who went to the area under the responsibility of the City Hospital, not the Izmit Municipality, upon the invitation of the City Hospital Management, to make the door arrangement that would provide ease of transportation for the citizens, were prevented by the Izmit Municipality teams. “We met and our colleagues were beaten in the fight that broke out. The credit belongs to our people.”