Mustafa Çiftçi (born 1970) is a Turkish bureaucrat and politician. He became Turkey’s minister of the interior on 11 February 2026, after serving as governor of Erzurum from 2023 until February 2026.
During the Istanbul floods described in the news report, Çiftçi said that more than 2,700 people stranded by the flooding had been safely evacuated across the city.