Melih Gokcek

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Melih Gökçek (2013)

İbrahim Melih Gökçek (born October 20, 1948 in Ankara ) is a Turkish politician and was Mayor of Ankara from 1994 to 2017.

politics

The politicians, the various on behalf parties five times total for mayor of the metropolitan municipality was elected Ankara, ( local elections in 1994 , municipal elections in 1999 , municipal elections in 2004 , municipal elections in 2009 and local elections in 2014 ) was on October 23, 2017 a meeting with the President of Turkey , Recep Tayyip Erdoğan , the resignation suggested. Gökçek then announced that he would say goodbye and resign from office at a special meeting of the city council. After 23 years in office in the Turkish capital, in which Erdoğan was defeated by his political opponents at the constitutional referendum in Turkey in 2017, unlike almost all provinces in Central Anatolia as well as in Turkey's largest city, İstanbul , he resigned five days after the talks back with Erdoğan.

Gökçek's political career began as a member of the " Motherland Party " (Anavatan Partisi - ANAP) with the election of Mayor of Keçiören , an office he held from 1984 to 1989. In 1989 he tried unsuccessfully for his re-election. Thereupon he acted from 1989 to the beginning of 1991 as head of the authority for social services and child protection ( Sosyal Hizmetler ve Çocuk Esirgeme Kurumu ). He lost this post in 1991 because he had supported the opponent of the later elected Mesut Yılmaz , Yıldırım Akbulut , in the vote for the office of party chairman . He was forced to leave the party and switched to the Welfare Party , for which he was elected to the Turkish parliament in the October 20, 1991 election . Previously, he had established an electoral alliance with the “Party of Nationalist Labor” ( Milliyetçi Çalışma Partisi , MÇP), from 1992 again “ Party of the Nationalist Movement ” ( Milliyetçi Hareket Partisi , MHP). In 1994 he was elected Lord Mayor of Ankara. After the welfare party was banned in February 1998 because of hostility towards the constitution, he joined its successor party, the “ Virtue Party ” (Fazilet Partisi, FP). After this was also banned in June 2001, he remained non-party for a year and then briefly joined the "Democratic Party" (Democrat Parti, DP) in June 2002. He was later accepted into the AKP , which had now been established .

Gökçek has been tweeting regularly and extensively since January 2011 under his account @ 06melihgokcek. The messages he shared are controversial and are sometimes considered bizarre. He shared the news that the police had found plans to build an atomic bomb in the Gezi Park demonstrators' protest camps. In 2013 he called critical journalists “foreign agents” and started a day campaign. In 2014 he commented on anti-Semitic remarks by Yıldız Tilbe supportively with "highly intelligent".

During the coup attempt in Turkey in July 2016, Gökçek accused the FETÖ of controlling people with the help of supernatural beings . He also caused a sensation when he said that an earthquake in the Aegean Sea near Izmir could have been an artificial earthquake for which foreign powers were responsible.

Life

Gökçek was born in Keçiören / Ankara in 1948 as the eldest of three children of a lawyer . He spent the first five years of his life in Ankara, after which he and his family moved to Gaziantep , where he spent his school days. After graduating from high school, Gökçek moved back to Ankara in 1967, initially studying political science at Ankara University and then journalism at Gazi University and working as a parliamentary correspondent for a local newspaper. In the meantime he was employed in the Ministry of Labor. He did his military service in Güzelyurt in Northern Cyprus as a reserve officer. He then ran various trades for many years, including a. as an egg wholesaler.

Gökçek is married; he has two children and several grandchildren.

Web links

Commons : Melih Gökçek  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ spiegel.de October 24, 2017: Gökcek announces his resignation under pressure from Erdogan - after 23 years in office
  2. ↑ Michael Martens : With Twitter and tear gas against demonstrators , FAZ, December 2, 2013.
  3. ↑ BBC reporters 'intimidated' by Turkey , BBC website, June 24, 2013.
  4. ^ Frank Nordhausen: Anti-Jewish agitation in Turkey , Frankfurter Rundschau , July 13, 2014.
  5. ↑ "Melih Gökçek: FETÖ insanları üç harflilerle etki altına alıyor" The Independent of July 25, 2016
  6. ↑ 6,2'lik Deprem Ege'yi, Gökçek Twitter'ı Salladı: Suni Deprem Olabilir!
personal data
SURNAME Gökçek, Melih
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gökçek, İbrahim Melih (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish politician and mayor of Ankara
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Ankara