There’s a complicated system of party alliances in place for the mayoralty of Turkey’s 30 largest provinces, known as büyükşehir, in the 2019 local election. This colourful table helps you pick through them all.
This page will be constantly updated until the candidate registration deadline in mid-February 2019.
The Big Three
Party
Istanbul
Binali Yıldırım
Ekrem İmamoğlu
Not standing
Ankara
Mehmet Özhaseki
Mansur Yavaş
Izmir
Nihat Zeybekci
Tunç Soyer
Not standing
Population > 2 million
Party
Adana
Hüseyin Sözlü
Not standing
Antalya
Menderes Türel
Bursa
Alinur Aktaş
Mustafa Bozbey
Gaziantep
Fatma Şahin
Kocaeli
Tahir Büyükakın
Konya
Uğur İbrahim Altay
Mersin
Hamit Tuna
Vahap Seçer
Burhanettin Kocamaz
Not standing
Şanlıurfa
Zeynel Abidin Beyazgül
1.3 million — 1.9 million people
Party
Diyarbakır
Cumali Atilla
Selçuk Mızraklı & Hülya Alökmen
Hatay
İbrahim Güler
Lütfü Savaş
Kayseri
Memduh Büyükkılıç
Manisa
Cengiz Ergün
Orkun Sıktaşlı
Samsun
Mustafa Demir
Population circa 1 million
Party
Aydın
Mustafa Savaş
Özlem Çerçioğlu
Balıkesir
Yücel Yılmaz
Denizli
Osman Zolan
K.maraş
Hayrettin Güngör
Ali Öztunç
Tekirdağ
Mestan Özcan
Kadir Albayrak
Van
Necdet Takva
Nurettin Beyaz
Population < 1 million
Party
Erzurum
Mehmet Sekmen
Barış Kemaloğlu
Eskişehir
Burhan Sakallı
Yılmaz Büyükerşen
Malatya
Selahattin Gürkan
Soner Gökçe
Mardin
Mehmet Vejdi Kahraman
Süleyman Sarı
Tuna Işıkhan
Muğla
Mehmet Nil Hıdır
Osman Gürün
Ordu
Hilmi Güler
Sakarya
Ekrem Yüce
Trabzon
Murat Zorluoğlu