Gülistan Sönük (b. 1993) is a
Turkish Kurd politician who was elected as the co-mayor of
Batman
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in the 2024 Local Elections. She is the first female co-mayor of Batman Municipality.
Biography
She was born in 1993 in
Kozluk
Kozluk (, ) is a town and seat of Kozluk District in Batman Province, Turkey. The town had a population of 27,825 in 2021. The mayor is Mehmet Veysi Işık (Justice and Development Party (Turkey), AKP).
It is divided into the neighborhoods of Ağ ...
. After completing her university education in Political Science and International Relations, she entered politics. In 2019, she was elected as the co-mayor of
Bekirhan, a town in
Kozluk District
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.
References
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Living people
1993 births
21st-century mayors of places in Turkey
Mayors of Batman
Turkish Kurdish politicians
Turkish Kurdish women
Women mayors of places in Turkey