Silopi is a city and seat of Silopi District in the Şırnak Province of Turkey. The city is mainly populated by Kurds of Sipêrtîand Zewkan tribes and had a population of 108,880 in 2023.
Cezmi Kartay was a Turkish civil servant and politician.
Süleyman Soylu is a Turkish politician. He is a deputy chairman of the Justice and Development Party. He previously served as the Minister of Labour and Social Security from November 2015 to August 2016 and the Minister of the Interior from August 2016 to June 2023. He is a former leader of the Democrat Party (DP).
Hüseyin Avni Mutlu is a Turkish civil servant. He served as the Governor of Istanbul Province between 2010 and 2014.
In Turkey,a governor is an official responsible for the implementation of legislation,constitutional and government decisions in individual provinces. There are 81 governors in Turkey,one for each province,appointed ceremonially by the president on the recommendation of the Interior Ministry. Governors are legally required to be politically neutral and have power over public offices within their province,including the provincial police force. They also have a certain role in local government,though mayors and councillors are elected to these roles in local elections. The provincial head of security also concurrently serves as deputy governor.
Ali Fidan is a Turkish bureaucrat who served as the Governor of Düzce between March 2015 and August 2016. He is a former Kaymakam and served as the Deputy Governor of Malatya between 2001 and 2003.
Ali İhsan Su is a Turkish bureaucrat who has served as the governor of Diyarbakır since May 2022,having been appointed by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on the recommendation of the Turkish Government. He previously served as the 8th governor of Düzce from 2013 to 2015,having been appointed by former president Abdullah Gül. He is a former Kaymakam.
Vahdettin Özkan is a Turkish bureaucrat who has served as the 46th Governor of Isparta since August 2013,having been appointed by President Abdullah Gül on the recommendation of the Turkish Government. He previously served as the Governor for various districts. He is a former Kaymakam.
Hasan İpek is a Turkish bureaucrat who served as the 11th Governor of Şırnak from 2013 to 2015,having been appointed by President Abdullah Gül on the recommendation of the Turkish Government. He previously served as the 9th Governor of Bayburt from 2011 to 2013. He is a former advisor to the Prime Minister of Turkey. He is a former Kaymakam.
In late July 2015,the third phase of the Kurdish–Turkish conflict between various Kurdish insurgent groups and the Turkish government erupted,following a failed two and a half year-long peace process aimed at resolving the long-running conflict.
Controversies during the Turkish general election of November 2015 mainly centred on the escalating violence in the south-east and the rise in domestic terrorist attacks linked to both the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). International concerns also grew over an increase in media censorship,with the government being accused of specifically targeting news outlets known to be close to the Gülen Movement such as Kanaltürk and Bugün TV. Safety concerns due to the escalating conflict resulted in the government proposing to merge ballot boxes in affected areas and to transport them to safer locations,though the opposition criticised the move as an attempt to decrease the votes of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP),which polled strongly in the June 2015 general election.
On 19 March 2016,a suicide bombing took place in Istanbul's Beyoğlu district in front of the district governor's office. The attack occurred at 10:55 (EET) at the intersection of Balo Street with İstiklal Avenue,a central shopping street. The attack caused at least five deaths,including that of the perpetrator. Thirty-six people were injured,including seven whose injuries were severe. Among those injured were twelve foreign tourists. Among those killed,three were of Israeli nationality. On 22 March,the Turkish interior minister said that the bomber had links with ISIL.
The Turkish local elections of 2019 were held on Sunday 31 March 2019 throughout the 81 provinces of Turkey. A total of 30 metropolitan and 1,351 district municipal mayors,alongside 1,251 provincial and 20,500 municipal councillors were elected,in addition to numerous local non-partisan positions such as neighbourhood representatives (muhtars) and elderly people's councils.
Definition of terrorism in Turkey is categorized under Turkey's criminal law as crimes against the constitutional order and internal and external security of the state by the use of violence as incitement or systematic to create a general climate of fear and intimidation of the population and thereby effect political,religious,or ideological goals. Since the establishment of the Republic of Turkey,both organized groups,lone wolf,and international spy agencies have committed many acts of domestic terrorism against Turkish people.
The March 2019 Istanbul mayoral election took place on 31 March 2019,as part of the 2019 Turkish local elections. In addition to a mayor for the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality,all 39 Istanbul districts elected their own individual mayors as well as district councillors.
Ekrem İmamoğlu is a Turkish businessman,real estate developer,and social democratic politician serving as the 32nd Mayor of Istanbul. He was first elected with 4.1 million votes and won with a margin of 13 thousand votes against his AKP opponent in the March 2019 mayoral election as the joint Nation Alliance candidate of the Republican People's Party (CHP) and the Good Party,but served only from 17 April 2019 until 6 May 2019,when the election was annulled. He was then reelected in a renewed election on 23 June 2019 by an even larger margin of 800,000 votes. He ran for the office again in the 2024 Istanbul Mayoral elections in which he won by approximately a 50 percent majority,securing another 5 year term. He had previously been the Mayor of Beylikdüzü,a western district of Istanbul,between 2014 and 2019.
The June 2019 Istanbul mayoral election was held on 23 June 2019. It was a repeat of the March 2019 mayoral election,which was annulled by the Supreme Electoral Council (YSK) on 6 May 2019. The original election had resulted in a narrow 0.2% margin of victory for opposition candidate Ekrem İmamoğlu,causing the governing Justice and Development Party to successfully petition for a by-election.
Local elections in Turkey took place throughout the country's 81 provinces on 31 March 2024. A total of 30 metropolitan and 1,363 district municipal mayors,alongside 1,282 provincial and 21,001 municipal councillors were elected,in addition to numerous local non-partisan positions such as neighbourhood representatives (muhtars) and elderly people's councils.
The Mayor of Istanbul Ekrem İmamoğlu was put on trial for having insulted a public official. He was accused of calling the ones who canceled the Istanbul mayoral election of March 2019 "fools". The first hearing was in January 2022 and in December 2022 he was sentenced to 2 years,7 months,and 15 days imprisonment and given a political ban in accordance with Article 53 of the Turkish Criminal Code. İmamoğlu has appealed the verdict,and his ban from politics does not apply as long as he is pending trial.
Davut Gül is a Turkish bureaucrat and the current Governor of Istanbul.
