Beledweyne is a city in central Somalia. Beledweyne District is the capital city of the Hiran region.
Seyhan is a district-municipality in the Adana Province of Turkey. Its area is 444 km2,and its population is 795,012 (2022). It forms the core of the Adana urban area. Seyhan is home to 35 percent of the residents of Adana Province and almost half of the residents of the city of Adana. It is the fifth most populous metropolitan district in Turkey.
Bağcılar is a municipality and district of Istanbul Province,Turkey. Its area is 23 km2,and its population is 740,069 (2022). It is located on the European side of Istanbul,near the city centre,just north of Bahçelievler,between the two major ring roads,TEM and D100. The district is the fourth most populous in the Istanbul Municipality. Bağcılar developed rapidly between the 1970s and 1990s and is primarily residential in nature. The neighborhood is served by the Istanbul Metro and the T1 line of the Istanbul Tram. The mayor is Abdullah Özdemir from the Justice and Development Party,elected in April 2022.
Mustafa Denizli is a Turkish football coach and former player. He has managed many notable Turkish football clubs,including "Istanbul Big Three" and has won the Süper Lig title three times. He is the only manager in history to win the Süper Lig with three clubs,and the only manager who reached semi-finals in the European Cup 1988-89 - which make him one the top 3 coaches of Turkey along with Fatih Terim and Şenol Güneş.
Denizlispor is a Turkish sports club based in Denizli. It is known by its distinct green and black colors. The club's branches include football,volleyball,basketball,table tennis,and gymnastics. The Denizli Atatürk Stadium,which has a seating capacity of up to 18,745 spectators is the club's home ground.
Dazkırı is a town of Afyonkarahisar Province in the Aegean region of Turkey,140 km from the city of Afyon on the road to Denizli. It is the seat of DazkırıDistrict. Its population is 5,640 (2021). The climate in the district is hot and dry in summer,and cold and wet in winter. The former mayor is İsmail Taylan (CHP). He was replaced by Fatih Çiçek from AKP in the local election on 31 March 2024.
The Democratic Society Party was a Kurdish nationalist political party in Turkey. The party considered itself social-democratic and had observer status in the Socialist International. It was considered to be the successor of the Democratic People's Party (DEHAP). The party was established in 2005 and succeeded in getting elected more than ninety mayors in the municipal elections of 2009. On 11 December 2009,the Constitutional Court of Turkey banned the DTP,ruling that the party has become "focal point of activities against the indivisible unity of the state,the country and the nation". The ban has been widely criticized both by groups within Turkey and by several international organizations. The party was succeeded by the Peace and Democracy Party.
Osman Baydemir is a Kurdish politician,lawyer and human rights activist. He was the mayor of his home town of Diyarbakır from 2004 to 2014. He was a member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey for the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) and also the Peoples Democratic Party (HDP).
Saffet Sancaklı is a Turkish former international footballer and current politician. He is a deputy of Nationalist Movement Party,representing city of Kocaeli.
İbrahim Melih Gökçek is a Turkish politician who served as the mayor of Ankara from 1994 to 2017. From 1991 to 1994,he was an MP. Gökçek has won municipal elections in 1994,1999,2004,2009,and was controversially also declared the winner in 2014. He is a member of the governing AK Party.
There are 81 provinces in Turkey. Among the 81 provinces,30 provinces are designated metropolitan municipalities. Metropolitan municipalities are subdivided into districts,where each district includes a corresponding district municipality,which is a second tier municipality.
Local elections were held in Turkey on 30 March 2014,with some repeated on 1 June 2014. Metropolitan and district mayors as well as their municipal council members in cities,and muhtars and "elderly councils" in rural areas were elected. In light of the controversy around the elections,it was viewed as a referendum on the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. About 50 million people were eligible to vote.
Nihat Zeybekci is a Turkish economist,politician,a member of parliament for Denizli Province of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and former Minister of the Economy.
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.
Events of 2019 in Turkey.
Mayoral elections were held in the Turkish province of Ankara as part of nationwide local elections on 31 March 2019. A total of 26 mayors,one for each of the 25 districts of Ankara and one for the Ankara Metropolitan Municipality,were elected.
Mustafa TunçSoyer is a Turkish politician from the Republican People's Party (CHP) who served as the Mayor of İzmir from 2019 to 2024. He previously served as the mayor of Seferihisar,a coastal district of İzmir,from 2009 to 2019.
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 councilors were elected,in addition to numerous local non-partisan positions such as neighborhood representatives (muhtars) and elderly people's councils.
The Denizli Gondola is a two-station aerial lift line of gondola type in Denizli,Turkey. It is owned and operated by Denizli Metropolitan Municipality. It operates between Denizli and BağbaşıHill.
