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34 Republican People's Party25 Justice and Development Party8 Nationalist Movement Party6 Trustee4 Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party2 New Welfare Party +2 more
Sources: TurkStat (Turkish Statistical Institute: national and provincial accounts, labour force survey, consumer prices, address-based population register) and the central bank's house price index via the OECD's regional and national databases; World Bank (GDP before 1995, unemployment before 2005), GISCO, World Bank (Worldwide Governance Indicators), V-Dem Institute, Transparency International, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons; office-holders checked against the Supreme Election Council's results and the municipalities' own lists. CreditsPrivacy

Fatma Şahin (Justice and Development Party) has been Mayor of Gaziantep Metropolitan Municipality since 7 Apr 2014. Gaziantep's real provincial GDP jumped 6.0% a year under Fatma Şahin, in office since April 2014, against +4.8% for Turkey. Among the 24 provinces with a year or more of figures, Gaziantep ranks 1st on population growth and 23rd on the fall in unemployment. The widest gap with Turkey is in provincial GDP per person: +2.7% a year against +3.4%; the gap was widest in 2023, +28.2% against +40.2%. Under Asım Güzelbey (2004 to 2014) the same series jumped 8.0% a year. Employment rate: 47.9% of the population aged 15–64 in 2025, +3.7 percentage points since day zero.

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