Mansur Yavaş

Mansur Yavaş

Mansur Yavaş (born May 23, 1955 in Beypazarı , Ankara ) is a Turkish lawyer, military prosecutor and politician. He has been Lord Mayor of the Turkish capital Ankara since April 8, 2019. He was previously, among other things, mayor of the Ankaran district of Beypazarı.

Life

After Mansur Yavaş completed his elementary, middle and high school education in Beypazarı, he studied law at Istanbul University .

He graduated from this faculty in 1983, then did his military service as a military prosecutor and worked as a freelance lawyer in Beypazarı for 13 years. He was a member of the city council from 1989 to 1994 and a candidate for mayor in 1994.

In the local elections in 1999 , Yavaş was elected mayor on April 18 with 51% of the vote and 8500 votes as the successor to İbrahim Demir. Because of his renovation work on the historic mansions and his efforts to protect the memory of Beypazarı's 1,000-year history, he was named the best local politician in 2001 ( 2001 Yılının En İyi Yerel Yöneticisi ). The Society for the Turkish Language awarded him the Society's Honorary Prize for his defense of the Turkish language and the Environment Prize ( Çevre Ödülü ) for his work as an environmental activist . On September 24, 2004 he was elected "Mayor of the Year" by the TÜSİAV.

In the local elections on April 18, 2004 Mansur Yavaş was re-elected mayor with 55% of the vote and 11,000 votes. In the local elections on March 29, 2009 , he ran as candidate for mayor of the right-wing extremist party of the Nationalist Movement (MHP) for the city of Ankara. With 27% of the vote, he was third behind Melih Gökçek from the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and Murat Karayalçın from the Republican People's Party (CHP). Mansur Yavaş then criticized the MHP for marginalizing him. On December 21, 2013, the central board of the CHP accepted his membership application and he changed parties and then ran as CHP mayoral candidate for all of Ankara in the 2014 local elections , where he was defeated by the then official Melih Gökçek by one percentage point. Yavaş accused the state news agency Anadolu Ajansı and the High Election Committee of deliberate disinformation and manipulation of the election results, but this was rejected.

Five years later, Yavaş ran again for the CHP and won with almost 51 percent of the vote. Thus he became the first CHP mayor of Ankara in 25 years.

Web links

Commons : Mansur Yavaş  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of Mansur Yavas

Individual evidence

1. ^ Salzburger Nachrichten , accessed on April 8, 2019.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} biography ( memento of the original dated December 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Mansur Yavaş
4. ^ Mansur Yavaş CHP üyesi oldu. In: hurriyet.com.tr . December 21, 2013, accessed February 1, 2019 (Turkish). 
5. ↑ Mansur Yavaş: Oyumuzu çaldırmayacağız. Retrieved April 8, 2019 (Turkish). 
6. ↑ CHPs Mansur Yavaş is appointed mayor of Ankara. Retrieved April 8, 2019 .