Tahir Akyurek, (born 1959 in Derebucak, Turkey) is a Turkish politician of the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) and a former mayor of

Konya Konya is a major city in central Turkey, on the southwestern edge of the Central Anatolian Plateau, and is the capital of Konya Province. During antiquity and into Seljuk times it was known as Iconium. In 19th-century accounts of the city in En ...

. After he graduated in law from

Ankara University Ankara University () is a public university, public research university in Ankara, the capital of Turkey. It was the first higher education institution founded in Turkey after the History of the Republic of Turkey, formation of the Turkish republ ...

, Tahir Akyurek worked in Konya as a lawyer at the Provincial Directorate of Bag-Kur. He has also served as General Secretary of the Konya Chamber of Commerce. In the 2004 local government elections he scored 63% of the vote and was elected mayor of Konya. He was elected for a second term in the March 2009 election. He is married and has three children. In 2009 he announced that Konya would introduce a "smart bicycle" facility into its transport system in 2010. In the 2018 Turkish parliamentary election, he was elected to the

Grand National Assembly of Turkey The Grand National Assembly of Turkey ( ), usually referred to simply as the GNAT or TBMM, also referred to as , in Turkish, is the Unicameralism, unicameral Turkey, Turkish legislature. It is the sole body given the legislative prerogatives by ...

from

. He was re-elected in

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Akyurek, Tahir 1959 births Living people Mayors of places in Turkey Justice and Development Party (Turkey) politicians Deputies of Konya Members of the 27th Parliament of Turkey Members of the 28th Parliament of Turkey