Mustafa Sarıgül

Mustafa Sarıgül (2013)

Mustafa Sarıgül (born November 15, 1956 in İliç , Erzincan Province ) is a Turkish writer, entrepreneur and politician. He was from 1999 to 2014 Mayor of Istanbul city district Şişli , where he was the candidate of the last two times Republican People's Party was elected (CHP).

Life

Sarıgül comes from the village of Güngören near Erzincan, where he also went to primary school. Sarıgül only saw his father, a doorman and warehouse worker in Istanbul, when he was six years old. When his family moved to Istanbul, he studied at Marmara University and graduated from the Faculty of Professorships. He then headed İETT , a local transport company in the greater Istanbul area. In the parliamentary elections in 1987 he was elected as a member of the social democrat Halkçı Parti (SHP) with a record election result in the city of Istanbul as the youngest member of parliament in Turkey.

From 1999 to 2002 Sarıgül was a member of the Democratic Left Party (DSP) under Prime Minister Bülent Ecevit . On April 19, 1999, he was elected Lord Mayor of Şişli by an overwhelming majority to succeed Cüneyt Akgün . In 2002 he joined the New Turkey Party , which the former Foreign Minister İsmail Cem had founded in a government crisis before he became a member of the Republican People's Party (CHP) in 2003, from which the DSP originally emerged. Within the CHP, Sarıgül was an intra-party rival of chairman Deniz Baykal , who steered the social democratic party to the right, and was expelled from the party in 2005. After a period as an independent, he announced in 2008 that he would become a member of the DSP again.

After the disastrous results of the DSP at the local level in 2009, he founded a new political movement called the Movement for Change in Turkey ( Türkiye Değişim Hareketi ) and began transforming the movement into a new political party. However, since Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has held the chairmanship of the Republican People's Party since 2010 , Sarıgül is cooperating with the CHP. In the local elections in 2014 he was the CHP's candidate for mayor for all of Istanbul, but was defeated by the candidate of the Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi , Kadir Topbaş .

In 2019 he ran as a candidate for the Democratic Sol Parti in the local elections in his home district of Şişli. With 28.82%, he came second behind the candidate from CHP Muammer Keskin.

family

Mustafa Sarıgül has two children, Ömer and Emir Sarıgül. He divorced his second wife, Aylin Kotil, in 2008. His first wife Gülsüm Köksaloğlu died.

Works

Mustafa Sarıgül is the author of two books;

• TBMM'de Bir Milletvekili
• İstanbul'da Direksiyon Sallamak

Web links

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Iste 13th CHP Congress Muharebesi Photographers Turkish
2. ↑ Mustafa Sarıgül, resmen DSP'de Turkish
3. ↑ 'CHP'ye destek vereceğiz' (Turkish) . In: Cumhuriyet , June 22nd, 2010. Archived from the original on June 26th, 2010 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. . Retrieved June 23, 2010.  
4. ↑ Official result of the city elections, on www.ysk.gov.tr
5. ↑ https://t24.com.tr/secim2019/ilce/istanbul/sisli
6. ↑ Sarigul'un Ayrildigi Esi Aylin Kotil Ilk Kez Konustu Turkish
7. ↑ Reference to his books ( Memento of the original from May 25, 2012 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. Turkish