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Mevlüt Uysal (born 1966,
Alanya Alanya (; ), formerly Alaiye, is a beach resort town, resort city, a municipality and Districts of Turkey, district of Antalya Province, Turkey. It is on the southern coast of Turkey, in the country's Mediterranean Region, Turkey, Mediterranean R ...
) is a Turkish politician and lawyer who was the
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Metropolitan Municipality from September 2017 to April 2019. After completing the primary and middle school in Antalya, he studied law at
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and graduated in 1988. Uysal worked as a freelance lawyer and has been engaged in active politics. He co-founded the district organization of Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Küçükçekmece, Istanbul Province. Following the merger of Bahçeşehir and Başakşehir neighborhoods forming the Başakşehir district, he was elected district mayor of Başakşehir in the 2009 local elections on March 29. He was re-elected in the 2014 local elections. He was nominated as the
Mayor of Istanbul The mayor of Istanbul is the head of the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality. The mayor is elected popularly every five years. Nuri Aslan has served as interim mayor of Istanbul since 26 March 2025. This article covers the Ottoman Empire to the ...
from the AKP after Mayor Kadir Topbaş resigned from his post on September 22, 2017. Uysal was elected the new mayor in the third round in the Council of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality on September 28, 2017. Uysal is married and father of four.


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Living people 1966 births People from Alanya Istanbul University Faculty of Law alumni 20th-century Turkish lawyers 21st-century mayors of places in Turkey Mayors of Istanbul Justice and Development Party (Turkey) politicians {{Turkey-politician-stub