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Manisa Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Ferdi Zeyrek remains in critical condition after being electrocuted while attempting to repair pool equipment at his home, with medical teams performing 70 minutes of cardiopulmonary resuscitation before successfully restoring his heartbeat.
The 48-year-old mayor was electrocuted around 11:35 p.m. local time while investigating a suspected electrical fault in his pool's motor system at his residence.
Family members immediately shut off electrical breakers and called emergency services after hearing distress sounds.
Provincial Health Director Dr. Mehmet Fatih Zeren confirmed that emergency teams received the electrocution report and reached the scene within minutes. Medical personnel found Zeyrek unconscious with no pulse and immediately began life-saving procedures.
"Our teams arrived within minutes. Intervention was made, and it was observed that there was no consciousness. He was brought to the hospital with cardiac massage. He was taken to intensive care with initial intervention. The necessary treatment continues, but his condition is critical," Dr. Zeren stated.
"His heart had stopped. It came back with cardiac massage. He is currently sedated," he added.
Zeyrek was transported to Manisa Celal Bayar University Hafsa Sultan Hospital, where medical teams continued resuscitation efforts for an extended period before achieving success.
The main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) General Chairman Ozgur Ozel, who had spent the day with Zeyrek visiting Hatuniye Mosque, the cemetery, and the martyrs' memorial, rushed to the hospital upon learning of the accident.
"In the evening hours, our Mayor Ferdi, at his own residence, most likely while intervening in a malfunction in the pool motor where we estimate there was an electrical leak, faced an electric shock due to electrical leakage into the water," Ozel explained to gathered media and supporters.
Ozel detailed the sequence of events: "First, a sound came, then his family ran, lowered the switches, and quickly notified 112. From that moment, within minutes, the ambulance came and they started cardiac massage on his stopped heart. They performed cardiac massage there for minutes. Then he came here."
The CHP leader emphasized the critical nature of the continuous medical intervention: "From the moment the ambulance arrived, proper cardiopulmonary resuscitation, proper cardiac massage and artificial respiration were performed, so we hope that oxygen went to his brain, and that oxygen went to his brain except for the first minutes of the intervention."
After extensive resuscitation efforts, medical teams achieved a breakthrough.
"After the intervention, his pulse returned intermittently several times. His heart began to beat. Currently, his heart is beating quite well. It works without support," Ozel reported.
"We all hope for a miracle to happen. The miracle happened with the heart working. But whether our Mayor Ferdi, our brother, our child, your brother, has damage to brain functions or not, this will become clear after a while," he continued.
Ozel called the revival extraordinary: "I believe this, a great miracle happened. A heart doesn't work after such a long time. This is a miracle. A bigger one will happen; we will reunite with our brother Ferdi."
Medical officials continue monitoring his condition in intensive care, with regular updates expected as his treatment progresses.
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