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Turkish politician and lawyer

Mevlüt Uysal
31st Mayor of Istanbul
In office
September 28, 2017 – April 17, 2019
Preceded byKadir Topbaş
Succeeded byEkrem İmamoğlu
Mayor of Başakşehir
In office
March 29, 2009 – September 28, 2017
Preceded byDistrict established
Succeeded byYasin Kartoğlu
Personal details
Born1966 (age 57–58)
Alanya, Antalya, Turkey
Political partyJustice and Development Party
Alma materIstanbul University Faculty of Law

Mevlüt Uysal (born 1966, Alanya) is a Turkish politician and lawyer who was the mayor of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality from September 2017 to April 2019.

After completing the primary and middle school in Antalya, he studied law at Istanbul University and graduated in 1988.

Uysal worked as a freelance lawyer and has been engaged in active politics. He co-founded the district organization of Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Küçükçekmece, Istanbul Province. Following the merger of Bahçeşehir and Başakşehir neighborhoods forming the Başakşehir district, he was elected district mayor of Başakşehir in the 2009 local elections on March 29. He was re-elected in the 2014 local elections.

He was nominated as the Mayor of Istanbul from the AKP after Mayor Kadir Topbaş resigned from his post on September 22, 2017. Uysal was elected the new mayor in the third round in the Council of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality on September 28, 2017.

Uysal is married and father of four.

References

  1. ^ "İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi'nin yeni başkanı Mevlüt Uysal". NTV (in Turkish). September 28, 2017. Retrieved October 13, 2017.
Political offices
Preceded byKadir Topbaş Mayor of Istanbul
28 September 2017 – 17 April 2019 		Succeeded byEkrem İmamoğlu
Preceded byDistrict established Mayor of Başakşehir
29 March 2009 – 28 September 2017 		Succeeded byYasin Kartoğlu
Mayors of Istanbul
Province Governors (1924–1960)
Military-appointed (1960–1963)
Elected (1963–1980)
Military-appointed (1980–1984)
Greater Istanbul (1984 to date)


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