Melih Gökçek, Turkish journalist and politician, Mayor of Ankara

Melih Gökçek

Turkish politician (born 1948)

İbrahim Melih Gökçek is a Turkish politician who served as the mayor of Ankara from 1994 to 2017. From 1991 to 1994, he was an MP. Gökçek has won municipal elections in 1994, 1999, 2004, 2009, and was controversially also declared the winner in 2014. He is a member of the…

Mayor of Ankara

The mayor of Ankara is the head of the Ankara Metropolitan Municipality. The mayor is elected popularly every five years.