Architecture of Turkey or Turkish architecture in the republican period is the architecture practised in Turkey since the foundation of the republic in 1923. In the first years of the republic, Turkish architecture was influenced by Seljuk and Ottoman architecture, in particular during the First National Architectural Movement. However, starting from the 1930s, architectural styles began to differ from traditional architecture, also as a result of an increasing number of foreign architects being invited to work in the country, mostly from Germany and Austria. The Second World War was a period of isolation, during which the Second National Architectural Movement emerged. Similar to Fascist architecture, the movement aimed to create a modern but nationalistic architecture.
Selçuk University is a state-owned higher educational institution which was founded 1975 in Konya, Turkey. It is one of the largest universities in Turkey with a student body of 63,000 of which 2,200 are foreign students from 105 countries.
Mehmet Özhaseki, is a Turkish politician of the Justice and Development Party and Minister of Environment, Urbanisation and Climate Change. He is a former Mayor of Kayseri.
Erdal Beşikçioğlu is a Turkish actor and politician.
Erdoğan Bayraktar is a Turkish politician. He is the former Minister of Environment and Urban Planning of Turkey under Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's government and member of parliament for Trabzon from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), resigning from both offices on 25 December 2013.
Presidential elections were held in Turkey on 10 August 2014 in order to elect the 12th President. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was elected outright with an absolute majority of the vote in the first round, making a scheduled run-off for 24 August unnecessary.
Muhammed Ali Fatih Erbakan is a Turkish engineer and politician who is the founder and leader of the Islamic fundamentalist New Welfare Party (YRP). A son of Necmettin Erbakan, the former Prime Minister of Turkey who led the YRP's predecessor, the Welfare Party, he is the President of the Necmettin Erbakan Foundation.
Suat Kınıklıoğlu is a Turkish politician, writer and analyst. Kınıklıoğlu began his political career in 1995-1996 with the Democratic Left Party (DSP) in Ankara. Following a break in politics Kınıklıoğlu was elected as Member of Parliament representing Çankırı in the general election of 22 July 2007 on a Justice and Development Party ticket. Kınıklıoğlu was member of the executive board of the AK Party (2009-2012), deputy chairman of external affairs (2007-2011), spokesman of the foreign affairs committee in the Turkish Parliament (2007-2011), chairman of the Turkey-USA Interparliamentary Friendship Group. Since June 2011 Kınıklıoğlu has been executive director of the Center for Strategic Communication, an Ankara-based foreign policy think tank.
Mahmut Tanal is a Turkish politician and former lawyer who serves as a Member of Parliament for Şanlıurfa in the Grand National Assembly, formerly representing Istanbul. He is a member of the Republican People's Party (CHP).
Metin Feyzioğlu is a Turkish lawyer and a professor of criminal law who served as the 8th president of the Turkish Bars Association between May 2013 and December 2021. He is the grandson of Turhan Feyzioğlu, a former CHP politician and deputy prime minister.
Ahmet Arslan is a Turkish politician from the Justice and Development Party who served as the Minister of Transport, Maritime and Communication from 24 May 2016 until 10 July 2018. He is a Member of Parliament for the electoral district of Kars, having first been elected in the November 2015 general election.
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 wardens (muhtars) and elderly people's councils.
Fatih Dönmez is a Turkish engineer, politician and former Turkish Minister of Energy and Natural Resources from 2018 to 2023.
Mahmut Özer is a Turkish politician, academic, former Bulent Ecevit University rector, former Measuring, Selection and Placement Center president and former Minister of National Education.
Suut Kemal Yetkin, was a Turkish academician, writer, essayist, university administrator.
Nureddin Nebati, is a Turkish politician who served as the Minister of Finance and Treasury of Turkey from 2021 to 2023. He has previously served in the Grand National Assembly as a member of Justice and Development Party. Nebati was appointed by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on 2 December 2021, after the former Minister of Finance Lütfi Elvan resigned from the position.
Vedat Bilgin is a Turkish sociologist, academic, bureaucrat, writer and former Turkish Minister of Labor and Social Security.
Yusuf Ziya Yılmaz is a Turkish engineer and politician who served as the mayor of Samsun Metropolitan Municipality between 1999 and 2018. Yılmaz succeeded Kemal Vehbi Gül, who served as mayor between 1983 and 1999. Yılmaz is remembered for his leadership during a time of significant reform and development in Metropolitan Samsun.
Istanbul will hold mayoral elections in 2024.
