Recep Altepe, (born 1959, Bursa,

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) is a Turkish politician and a former mayor of Bursa. He graduated from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at

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. He began his political life with the

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. In the 2004 local elections he was elected to the

Osmangazi Osmangazi is one of the central metropolitan districts of the city of Bursa in Bursa Province, as well as the fourth largest overall municipality in Turkey. The municipality has a population of approximately 778,843 as of 2012. On its own, it wo ...

Municipality. In the 2009 local elections he was elected to the Bursa Metropolitan Municipality. He is a member of the Justice and Development Party (AK Party). He is married with three children. In 2009 he was elected president of the Union of Municipalities of the Marmara Region (UMMR), taking over from Mr

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, Mayor of Istanbul. In October 2009 the Turkish press claimed that he was devoting much of his energy to the development of the

Uludağ Uludağ (), the ancient Mysian or Bithynian Olympus ( Greek: Όλυμπος), is a mountain in Bursa Province, Turkey, with an elevation of . In Turkish, ''Uludağ'' means "great mountain". In ancient times the range of which it is a part, e ...

resort. He is also active in the Healthy Cities Association of Turkey.

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