15.12.2025 12:15
The Mayor of Şehzadeler, Gülşah Durbay, passed away at Manisa City Hospital where she was receiving treatment. The first ceremony for Durbay, who will be buried today, is being held in front of the municipality. At the ceremony attended by thousands of people from Manisa, the leader of the CHP, Özgür Özel, could not hold back his tears.
Manisa Şehzadeler Mayor Gülşah Durbay, who passed away yesterday evening in the hospital where she was being treated for multiple organ failure, is being bid farewell on her final journey.
AN OFFICIAL CEREMONY WILL BE HELD
An official ceremony will first be held in front of the Şehzadeler Municipality building for Durbay. Before the ceremony, Durbay's body was taken out of the morgue of Manisa City Hospital. Along with her family and relatives, CHP Chairman Özgür Özel, CHP Deputy Chairmen Ulaş Karasu and Sezgin Tanrıkulu, Manisa Metropolitan Mayor Besim Dutlulu, CHP Manisa MPs Bekir Başevirgen and Ahmet Vehbi Bakırlıoğlu, İzmir MP Ednan Arslan, Malatya MP Veli Ağbaba, CHP Manisa Provincial Chair İlksen Özalper, CHP İzmir Provincial Chair Çağatay Güç, Çeşme Mayor Lal Denizli, Bayraklı Mayor İrfan Ünal, Narlıdere Municipality President Erman Uzun, many CHP politicians, actress Demet Evgar, and thousands of Manisalı citizens came to receive the body from the hospital.
ÖZGÜR ÖZEL COULDN'T HOLD BACK HIS TEARS
Durbay's body was taken out of the funeral home at 10:45 AM. A prayer was recited for Durbay here, and the imam asked for permission.
The coffin of Gülşah Gurbay, wrapped in the Turkish flag, was placed in a funeral vehicle that had a picture of her with the Turkish flag and the words "You are in our hearts." Durbay's father Osman Durbay and CHP Chairman Özgür Özel got into the vehicle. Durbay's body was taken to the Şehzadeler Municipality, where the official ceremony will be held.
LAL DENİZLİ: SHE CONTINUED HER EDUCATION DESPITE HER ILLNESS
At the ceremony in front of the municipality, Çeşme Mayor Lal Denizli said, "I will tell you about my rose. The path of our common hope that intersected in our youth branches turned into friendship and then into a perfect brotherhood. Gülşah even completed her law faculty, continuing her education despite the weakness caused by her illness."
ÖZGÜR ÖZEL COULDN'T HOLD BACK HIS TEARS
Meanwhile, CHP Chairman Özgür Özel and Çeşme Mayor Lal Denizli couldn't hold back their tears.
ÖZEL IN TEARS: WE CARRY A COFFIN EVERY 6 MONTHS, ENOUGH ALREADY
CHP Chairman Özgür Özel also stated, "She was 21 years old and was running around in this party. She lived quickly and worked quickly. In 2014, I was a candidate for the metropolitan municipality, and she would run from morning till night. She always took on leading roles in this party. Gülşah used to say, 'You will have a story to win an election. We will win with Ferdi Abi. This time we have a story.' I said, 'We will write another story.' The other day, Lal called, and today her father is telling the same thing. I told both of them, 'We wrote a very sad story.' This story ended like this. May we all have patience. Let it stop somewhere now."
Özel continued his speech as follows:
We carry a coffin every 6 months, enough already! May God give us all the strength to endure. Let us see a beautiful day from now on. I bow respectfully in front of Gülşah's memory.