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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

Gülşah Yıldırım Genç (Republican People's Party) has been Mayor of Mersin Metropolitan Municipality since 13 Oct 2026. Gülşah Yıldırım Genç took office on 13 October 2026. The figures run to 2025, so no series has a change to show yet, and the charts show the predecessors' years for now; the latest population is 1.95 million residents. Gülşah Yıldırım Genç, in office since October 2026, is the 7th holder of the office since 1991 and the newest of the 81 provinces' current office-holders.

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