Fatih Mehmet Maçoğlu

Fatih Mehmet Maçoğlu (Also known as 'The Communist Mayor'[1]) (born 20 December 1968, Çemberlitaş, Ovacık District[2]) is a Turkish communist politician of Zaza-Kurdish descent[3] and founder of Socialist Councils Federation (SMF). He is currently the mayor of Tunceli representing the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP).

Fatih Mehmet Maçoğlu
Mayor of Tunceli
Assumed office
5 April 2019
Preceded byTuncay Sonel
Mayor of Ovacık
In office
2 April 2014 – 3 April 2019
Preceded byMustafa Sarıgül
Succeeded byMustafa Sarıgül
Personal details
Born (1968-12-20) December 20, 1968
Çemberlitaş, Ovacık, Tunceli, Turkey
Political partyCommunist Party of Turkey

Early life and education

He was born in the village Çemberlitaş in Tunceli province in December 1968 and attended primary school in Ovacık and health high school in Bingöl.[2]

Professional career

From 1989 onwards he worked in healthcare. First in Bozkir in Konya and between 1992 and 2007 in Pertek, Tunceli.[2] From 2007 onwards he worked in emergency care in the Tunceli state hospital. He resigned from his work in hospital in order to stand as a mayoral candidate for Ovacik in the local elections of 2014.[2]

Political career

He was elected mayor of Ovacık in 2014,[4] where he was known for implementing initiatives like free public transport and agricultural projects such as bee keeping and chickpea cultivation[5] with which the gains supported university students.[6] He also encouraged the opening of several libraries in Ovacık.[7] In the local elections in 2019, he was elected mayor of Tunceli, the province's capital.[8]

Personal life

He is married and has two children.[2]

References
  1. "Tunceli'de 'Komünist Başkan' da iddialı, sonucu kararsız seçmen belirleyecek". BBC News Türkçe (in Turkish). Retrieved 2020-12-15.
  2. "Fatih Mehmet Maçoğlu kimdir? İşte komünist başkanın merak edilenleri…". www.sozcu.com.tr (in Turkish). Retrieved 2020-11-23.
  3. "Komünist Başkan Maçoğlu: Dersim burası, Kızılbaş, Kürdüm". Rûdaw (in Turkish). 24 March 2022. Retrieved 14 February 2023.
  4. "Seçim 2014 Tunceli Ovacık Yerel Seçim Sonuçları". www.haberturk.com. Retrieved 2019-12-14.
  5. Nawa, Fariba (2018-04-21). "The Unlikely New Hero of Turkey's Opposition". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2019-12-14.
  6. "Turkey's 'Communist mayor' tears down walls with fresh approach". France 24. 2019-05-02. Retrieved 2019-12-14.
  7. Malzahn, Philip. "TKP gewinnt in Dersim (neues deutschland)". www.neues-deutschland.de (in German). Retrieved 2019-12-15.
  8. "Tunceli Seçim Sonuçları: 31 Mart 2019 Tunceli Yerel Seçim Sonuçları". Sözcü (in Turkish). Retrieved 2019-12-14.
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