Ankara Metropolitan Mayor Melih Gökçek has announced that he resigned from his post.

Gökçek gave the following statements in his statement regarding his resignation:

"My president and my leader, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, asked me to resign. Some thought that I will put an intense reaction and scratched the event. Obey the order, no matter what! When we built this hope, our leader that day thought that I can contribute by being mayor. Today he asked me to resign which another contribution. I am worried that if we do not resign, it will be unfair to the hopes that we believe in. I do not think that we are tired, but I am fulfilling Erdoğan's demand that I believe that he will make my country one of the top country."

ILKHA