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Opinion Polling For The 2019 Turkish Local Elections ...
In the run-up to the 2019 Turkish local elections held on 31 March, various pollsters conducted opinion polls to gauge voting intentions in Turkey's major cities. Additionally, a number of polls were gauged to predict overall vote shares in the local election. This page lists these polls conducted by city, listing the most recent studies first. Overall opinion polling The below table shows nationwide opinion polls conducted to gauge overall vote shares. By province Istanbul Ankara Adana Bursa Eskişehir Antalya Hatay Balıkesir Denizli Şanlıurfa References {{Reflist, 30em 2019 Turkish local elections Turkish local elections 2019 Turkish local elections 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
March 2019 Istanbul Mayoral Election
The March 2019 Istanbul mayoral election took place on 31 March 2019, as part of the 2019 Turkish local elections. In addition to a mayor for the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality, all 39 Istanbul districts elected their own individual mayors as well as district councillors. Early results on election night showed that People's Alliance candidate Binali Yıldırım held a small lead over his Nation Alliance rival Ekrem İmamoğlu. However, as the lead narrowed and a blackout occurred over the reporting of new results, İmamoğlu overtook Yıldırım according to the Supreme Electoral Council (YSK) on noon on 1 April. Both candidates declared victory, with banners showing Yıldırım's image and the message 'thank you Istanbul' appearing in numerous places overnight. Yıldırım and his Justice and Development Party (AKP) announced that they would contest the results, citing electoral irregularities and a series of enumerating errors when recording results. AKP complaints f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justice And Development Party (Turkey)
The Justice and Development Party ( tr, Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, ; AKP), abbreviated officially AK Party in English, is a political party in Turkey self-describing as conservative-democrat. It is one of the two major parties of contemporary Turkey along with the Republican People's Party (CHP). Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been chairman of AKP since the 2017 Party Congress. The AKP is the largest party in the Grand National Assembly, the Turkish national legislature, with 285 out of 600 seats, having won 42.6% of votes in the 2018 Turkish parliamentary election. It forms the People's Alliance with the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP). The current AKP parliamentary leader is İsmet Yılmaz. Founded in 2001 by members of a number of parties such as FP, ANAP and DYP, the party has a strong base of support among people from the conservative tradition of Turkey, though the party strongly denies it is Islamist. The party positioned itself as pro-liberal market economy, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 Ankara Mayoral Election
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. Initial results suggested that opposition candidate Mansur Yavaş was elected with 50% of the vote, compared to the government candidate Mehmet Özhaseki's 47%. Although the AKP challenged the results and forced recounts in several districts, they were unable to overturn Yavaş's majority. Yavaş's victory was confirmed on 8 April 2019, when he was officially inaugurated mayor. Candidates On 27 November 2018, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) announced their metropolitan mayoral candidate to be Mehmet Özhaseki, the former mayor of Kayseri and former Minister of Environment and Urban Planning. Due to the People's Alliance agreement, Özhaseki has the support of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP). On 18 December, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felicity Party
The Felicity Party ( tr, Saadet Partisi, SP) is an Islamist Turkish political party. It was founded in 2001, and mainly supported by conservative Muslims in Turkey. It was founded on 20 July 2001 after the Virtue Party (FP) was banned by the Constitutional Court. While the party's reformist wing formed the Justice and Development Party (AKP), the hardliners founded the Felicity Party. Although an Islamist party, its policy platform covers the whole span of political issues in Turkey. The Felicity Party's vote has been weakened by the success of the moderately Islamic Justice and Development Party government, although it has repeatedly condemned the Turkish government's desire to join the European Union, military ties with Israel and the United States. It has argued that Turkey must adapt its military and foreign policy stance to meet what it argues are increasing threats coming from the West to all Muslim countries. The Felicity Party's policy platform is based strongly a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Osman Zolan
Osman Zolan (born 10 December 1966, Tavas) is a Turkish politician and lawyer who is the current Denizli Metropolitan Municipality of Turkey. On 10 March 2011, Nihat Zeybekci resigned to run for a seat in the parliament. Then Zolan took it over from him. He was nominated as a candidate for 2014 Turkish local elections Local elections (formal: local authority general elections, Turkish: ''Mahalli İdareler Genel Seçimi'' or simply ''Yerel Seçimleri'') were held in Turkey on 30 March 2014, with some repeated on 1 June 2014. Metropolitan and district mayors as .... After the elections, he was elected mayor of Denizli Metropolitan Municipality. References Living people 1964 births People from Tavas Dokuz Eylül University alumni 20th-century Turkish lawyers Mayors of Denizli Justice and Development Party (Turkey) politicians 21st-century Turkish politicians {{Turkey-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Menderes Türel
Menderes Mehmet Tevfik Türel (born 11 July 1964, Antalya, Turkey) is a Turkish politician of the Justice and Development Party (AKP). He was the mayor of Antalya from 29 March 2004 until March 2009, and once again from 30 March 2014 to 8 April 2019. When Menderes Turel was first elected, in the 2004 local elections, he was among the youngest metropolitan mayors of Turkey. Born into a family from Antalya, he served for many years as a member of Antalya Chamber of Trade and Industry (ATSO). Much of his working life has been spent at the printing house of the Yeni Ileri newspaper owned by his family. Türel emphasized during his election campaign that Antalya should become a world brand like major world cities. He regarded infrastructure as the most important problem of the city. The performance that Türel made after taking office was well received by the citizens of Antalya according to the results of public opinion polls. His successor Mustafa Akaydın criticized Türel's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yılmaz Büyükerşen
Yılmaz Büyükerşen (born 8 November 1937) is a Turkish politician, educator and current mayor of Eskişehir. Biography Büyükerşen graduated from the Eskişehir Academy of Economics and Commercial Sciences (later renamed Anadolu University) in 1962. During his academy years, he worked as a reporter, columnist, caricaturist and editor in various newspapers. With his friends from the academy, he established a chamber theatre and later a municipal theatre with funds raised by selling their blood to blood banks. Following his graduation, he was offered an assistantship at the finance department of the academy. In 1966, he earned his PhD. In 1968, he became associate professor; and in 1973, he became professor. Also in 1973, he prepared a model for open universities in Turkey. In 1976, he was elected as chairman of the Eskişehir Academy of Economics and Commercial Sciences. In July 1998 he was awarded an honorary degree from the British Open University as Doctor of the University ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alinur Aktaş
Alinur Aktaş (born 1970, in İnegöl, Turkey) is a Turkish politician in the Justice and Development Party (Turkey), AKP and the current Mayor of Bursa since 2017. Personal life He was born in 1970, in the İnegöl district of the Bursa Province. After graduating from primary school and high school in İnegöl, he graduated from Bursa Uludağ University, Uludağ University in Bursa. Alinur Aktaş is married and is also a father to two children. Politics His political life began as a member of AKP. He was elected as the Mayor of İnegöl in the 28 March 2004 elections. During his time being mayor, İnegöl became the second biggest city of the Southern Marmara Region. After the resignation of Bursa Mayor Recep Altepe, Alinur Aktaş was elected to be his successor. He is famous for putting himself on multiple payrolls by appointing himself as the president of every city council owned company. References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mustafa Tuna
Mustafa Tuna (born 1957) is a Turkish engineer, academic, and politician, who served as the 28th mayor of Ankara between November 2017 and April 2019. Early years Mustafa Tuna was born in Şarkışla, Sivas Province, Turkey, in 1957. He attended Istanbul Technical University (İTÜ), graduating with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1980 and a master's degree in environmental engineering in 1982. Between 1982 and 1983, he received training in the United States. Academic career In 1995, he received a doctoral degree from the Faculty of Science at the İTÜ upon his thesis "Cost Index of Wastewater treatment Facilities and Discharge-Cost Relations". Tuna was endowed with the title "Associate Professor" of the scientific discipline "Water Pollution and Its Control" by the interuniversity board in 1998. In parallel with his practical works in the industry, he carried on his academic studies in environmental technology, infrastructure planning and engineering economics. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mansur Yavaş
Mansur Yavaş (; born 23 May 1955) is a Turkish lawyer and politician who is currently the Mayor of Ankara, holding the office since April 2019. He was elected in the 2019 local election as the candidate of the Nation Alliance, an opposition alliance formed by the Republican People's Party (CHP) and the Good Party. A lawyer by profession, Yavaş originally entered politics as a nationalist politician. He was the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Mayor of Beypazarı, a district of Ankara, in the 1999 local elections. He served until 2009 and left the MHP in 2013. He joined the CHP the same year and was the CHP's candidate for Mayor of Ankara in the 2014 local election, where official results claimed that he had lost by 1 percentage point. The elections were disputed and were even referred to the European Court of Human Rights due to alleged fraud and irregularities. Despite briefly leaving the CHP, Yavaş returned to politics before the 2019 local elections to stand again as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mehmet Özhaseki
Mehmet Özhaseki, (born 25 May 1957, Kayseri, Turkey) is a Turkish politician of the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) and former Minister of Environment and Urban Planning. He is a former Mayor of Kayseri. Early life and education Mehmet Özhaseki was born in Kayseri, turkey on 25 May 1957. Özhaseki began his education in Kayseri and went on to study electronic engineering at Hacettepe University. He completed his education at the Istanbul University Faculty of Law. Political career Mayor of Kayseri He was elected to the Melikgazi Municipality in the March 1994 elections. In the 2004 elections he was elected Mayor of Kayseri with 72% of the vote. According to Christopher Caldwell, he attributes his success to "good government". He stood again in the March 2009 election and was re-elected as Mayor of Kayseri. Minister of Environment and Urban Planning Özhaseki was elected as a Justice and Development Party (AKP) Member of Parliament for Ankara's Ka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nation Alliance (Turkey)
The Nation Alliance ( tr, Millet İttifakı), or simply Nation ( tr, Millet), is an electoral alliance in Turkey made up of some of the major Turkish opposition parties that was established following the country’s 2017 constitutional referendum to contest under a common banner in the country's 2018 general-presidential election, later for the 2019 local elections, and presently for the upcoming 2023 presidential and general-parliamentary elections in June. The alliance itself officially takes a big-tent approach in politics to represent the supportive bases of all parties within the alliance; although setting the return to an enhanced and strengthened parliamentary system, the full guarantee of rule of law, separation of powers and human rights within the country as their main and in-common agenda. The alliance was officially established on 1 May 2018 with 4 parties officially signing and declaring their joint-collaboration (though with the ''Democrat Party'' fully join ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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