Akşener steps down as İYİ leader
In April 2024 Meral Akşener stepped down as İYİ Party leader after the party won only 3.7 percent nationwide in the March local elections.
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In April 2024 Meral Akşener stepped down as İYİ Party leader after the party won only 3.7 percent nationwide in the March local elections. At an extraordinary congress in Ankara on 27 April, delegates chose deputy group chairman Müsavat Dervişoğlu to succeed her over three other candidates, including Koray Aydın.
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Meral Akşener
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Akşener steps down as İYİ leader. Actor role on this event; contribution size permanently_blocked (no sourced fraction). Contribution size is permanently_blocked (no sourced fraction); provisional 0.4 stored because contributions.size is NOT NULL.
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- 1.turkishminute.com — sourceturkishminute.com · verified
- 2.hurriyetdailynews.com — sourcehurriyetdailynews.com · verified
- 3.cumhuriyet.com.trchecked 2026-10-15 GET 200, final URL = original (no non-trivial redirect), claim in text: ak+dervi · verified
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Factrail. (2026). Akşener steps down as İYİ leader. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/aksener-steps-down-iyi-leader-2024-04-27
https://factrail.ai/facts/aksener-steps-down-iyi-leader-2024-04-27
Accessed 16 October 2026.
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