WHüseyin Mutlu Akpınar is a Turkish politician and the current Mayor of Karşıyaka Municipality since 2014.
WOsman Baydemir is a Turkish politician, lawyer and human rights activist of Kurdish descent. He was the mayor of his home town of Diyarbakır from 2004 to 2014. He was a member of the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) until 2014 and HDP since 2014.
WYılmaz Büyükerşen is a Turkish politician, educator and current mayor of Eskişehir.
WAbdullah Demirbaş was the former mayor of the municipality of Sur in the city of Diyarbakir, of the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP).
WTevfik Esenç, also known as Tevfik Zayshua was a Circassian in Turkey and the last known speaker of the Ubykh language. He was fluent in Ubykh, Adyghe and Turkish. He asked the Turkish government to help him in his efforts to keep his language alive, but was denied. After his death in 1992, despite the efforts and work of numerous linguists, the Ubykh language went extinct. Esenç is single-handedly responsible for the world's current knowledge of Ubykh language and culture being as extensive and detailed as it is.
WAsim Güzelbey, is a Turkish politician of the Justice and Development Party and a former mayor of Gaziantep (2004-2014).
WEkrem İmamoğlu is a Turkish politician serving as the 32nd Mayor of Istanbul. He was first elected in the March 2019 mayoral election as the joint Nation Alliance candidate of the Republican People's Party (CHP) and the İYİ Party, but served only from 17 April 2019 until 6 May 2019, when the election was annulled. He was then reelected in a renewed election on 23 June 2019 by an even larger margin. He had previously been the Mayor of Beylikdüzü, a western district of Istanbul, between 2014 and 2019.
WLeyla İmret is a Turkish politician of Kurdish origin. She grew up in Germany but returned to her home country in 2013 and was elected mayor of Cizre on 31 March 2014. She was dismissed from her position by the government on 11 September 2015 after the siege of Cizre during the Kurdish-Turkish conflict. She eventually fled to Germany where she has continued to speak out against human rights abuses in the region. She is the subject of a 2017 documentary film, Dil Leyla and winner of the ILHR's 2018 Carl von Ossietzky Medal.
WHüseyin Kalkan was mayor of Batman in Southeast Anatolia, Turkey, and a member of the Democratic Society Party. He gained international notoriety November 2008 after he announced plans to sue Christopher Nolan, director of The Dark Knight film, over the allegedly unauthorized use of his city's name.
WTemel Karamollaoğlu is a Turkish politician who is currently the leader of the Felicity Party (SP) since 2016. A prominent Islamist, Karamollaoğlu was the Mayor of Sivas from 1989 to 1995 and served twice as a Member of Parliament for Sivas from 1977 to 1980 and from 1996 to 2002.
WFatih Mehmet Maçoğlu is a communist Turkish politician of Zaza-Kurdish descent and founder of Socialist Councils Federation (SMF). He is currently the mayor of Tunceli with Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) ticket.
WŞefik Avni Özdoğru was an officer of the Ottoman Army and of the Turkish Army. Mayor of Samsun. He was a younger brother of Talat Avni (Özüdoğru).
WBedia Özgökçe Ertan is a lawyer and a politician from the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), a former member of the Turkish Grand National Assembly and the former Mayor of Van.
WMehmet Özhaseki, is a Turkish politician of the Justice and Development Party and former Minister of Environment and Urban Planning. He is a former Mayor of Kayseri.
WMustafa Tuna is a Turkish engineer, academic, and politician, who served as the 28th mayor of Ankara between November 2017 and April 2019.
WAhmet Türk is a Turkish Kurd politician of the Peoples Democratic Party (HDP) and was born into a family of Kurdish clan and tribal chiefs in southeastern Turkey. He has been a member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey for several terms and was elected twice as the Mayor of Mardin.
WMevlüt Uysal is a Turkish politician and lawyer who was the mayor of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality from September 2017 to April 2019.
WMansur Yavaş is a Turkish politician who is currently the Mayor of Ankara, Turkey, 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 İYİ Party.
WNihat Zeybekci is a Turkish economist, politician, a member of parliament for Denizli Province of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the current Minister of the Economy.
WOsman Zolan is a Turkish politician and lawyer who is the current Denizli Metropolitan Municipality of Turkey.