1994 Turkish local elections

none 1994 Turkish local elections Turkey legislative 1989 Turkish local elections 1989 1994 03 27 y 1999 Turkish local elections 1999 All 3,215 district municipalities and 16 metropolitan municipalities of Turkey Municipalities Mayor ± Popular vote^ Percentage Swing 130x130px Turkish prime minister Tansu Çiller in Brussels.jpg Tansu Çiller True Path Party 6,027,095 21.40% 3.73pp 23.13% Mesut Yilmaz as Turkish Prime Minister.jpg Mesut Yılmaz Motherland Party (Turkey) 5,937,031 21.08% 0.72pp 21.80% Necmettin Erbakan.jpg Necmettin Erbakan Welfare Party 9.80% 5,388,195 19.13% 9.33pp Murat Karayalçın (cropped).jpg Murat Karayalçın Social Democratic Populist Party (Turkey) 28,69% 3,807,921 13,52% 15.17pp Bülent Ecevit-Davos 2000 cropped.jpg Bülent Ecevit Democratic Left Party (Turkey) 2,463,853 8.75% 0.27pp 9.03% Alparslan Türkeş Nationalist Movement Party 2,239,117 7.95% New – Deniz Baykal Republican People's Party 1,297,371 4,61% New – 1994 Mahalli İdareler Seçimleri BB.png Local elections were held in Turkey on 27 March 1994. Background 1989 local elections In the 1989 Turkish local elections, ANAP suffered a nationwide rout in what many saw as a referendum on the Turgut Özal administration.Çaǧaptay Soner The new sultan : Erdogan and the crisis of modern Turkey 2017 978-1-78453-826-2 London 974880239 Nurettin Sözen, a doctor from the center-left Social Democratic People’s Party (SHP) became Istanbul's mayor, creating hopes for the left’s nationwide rise. The SHP promised a break from the past with its platform focused on clean government and anti-corruption. But under the new administration, things only appeared to get worse. For one thing, Istanbul's population nearly doubled in the 1990s, creating massive demand for public services. Istanbul in the 1990s Istanbul had a large garbage problem in the 1990s and it reached a new high with the Üsküdar garbage explosion when a trash heap in a slum neighborhood exploded. Methane gas had built up beneath the filth, finally igniting and causing an avalanche that killed 27 of the hapless poor.Newman Barry 12 September 1994 Turning eastward: Islamic party's gains in Istanbul stir fears of a radical Turkey The Wall Street Journal Also, that winter the air was filled with soot from the millions of coal-burning ovens that families were using to heat their homes. Many began wearing surgical masks before going outside.White Jenny B. 1995 Islam and democracy: the Turkish experience Current History 94 588 10.1525/curh.1995.94.588.7 251858361 The İSKİ Scandal Three years into Sözen’s term, the İSKİ Scandal broke out. Ergün Göknel, a Sözen appointee who ran the Istanbul Water and Sewerage Administration (İSKİ) had divorced his wife in 1992 to marry an İSKİ employee three decades his junior, offering his wife a divorce settlement valued in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.Öktener Aslı 8 February 2001 Nurdan Erbuğ'un pişmanlığı! Milliyet But his former wife was not content to console herself quietly with her new fortune. She went to the press to declare the size of the settlement, which was far too large for a public servant to afford, and to voice her suspicions about her husband’s alleged illicit dealings. This triggered a flurry of speculation in the press about corruption in İSKİ and the SHP, and Turkey’s prosecutors sprang into action, preparing a handful of high-profile cases against leftist leaders.Montalbano William 4 November 1994 The army's prestige is growing amid political scandal The Guardian While İSKİ burned, Göknel married his new wife at the Istanbul Hilton, the city’s first American-built deluxe hotel. Mayor Sözen, infuriated, removed Göknel from his post and declared that he would support the harshest disciplinary action against any corrupt dealings uncovered in a criminal investigation. It was a buck too short, a day too late: the Turkish left, already weakened due to anti-leftist measures implemented in the aftermath of the 1980 coup, died in Istanbul in 1994. Rise of Erdoğan The İSKİ Scandal was unfolding during the peak of the local-elections season, and with every detail it seemed to prove what Necmettin Erbakan and his Welfare Party had been saying all along: that the people were suffering because they were governed by elites whose moral fiber had been rotted by Western ways. Turkey’s leaders were too busy fleecing the public and having affairs with each other to bother themselves with the problems of the suffering masses. Erdogan’s 1994 campaign played upon these themes with tremendous virtuosity. He called the RP the “voice of the silent masses.”10 August 2014 Kasımpaşa'dan Çankaya'ya, yoksulluktan yolsuzluk suçlamalarına Erdoğan'ın hayatı T24 While other parties lacked the grassroots infrastructure to communicate directly with the residents of Istanbul’s shanty towns, the RP machine could interact with them at a highly granular level, thanks to its vast database.Eligür Banu The Mobilization of Political Islam in Turkey New York: Cambridge University Press 2010 Populism, too, helped the RP’s cause. The party pledged to keep bread prices low through municipally subsidized bread factories, and RP representatives handed out coal and groceries in poor neighborhoods, once again taking advantage of their computerized database. It was said that one RP lieutenant even handed out gold coins to prospective voters.Akıncı Uğur 1999 The Welfare Party's municipal track record: evaluating Islamist municipal activism in Turkey Middle East Journal 53 1 77 Results The 1994 nationwide local elections showed that the vast majority of the voting public was still not comfortable with the Islamist RP alternative, even when the establishment parties were at their worst. Provincial assemblies True Path Party 6027095 Motherland Party 5937031 Welfare Party 5388195 Social Democratic Populist Party 3807921 Democratic Left Party 2463853 Nationalist Movement Party 2239117 Republican People's Party 1297371 Great Unity Party 355271 Democratic Party 148719 Nation Party 126118 Rebirth Party 104285 #008DD2 Socialist Unity Party 80714 Workers' Party 79588 Independent 96913 Metropolitan municipality mayors Metropolitanmunicipality Mayor PartyAdana Aytaç Durak Motherland Party (ANAP)Ankara Melih Gökçek Welfare Party (RP)Antalya Hasan Subaşı True Path Party (DYP)Bursa Erdem Saker Motherland Party (ANAP)Diyarbakır Ahmet Bilgin Welfare Party (RP)Erzurum Ersan Gemalmaz Welfare Party (RP)Eskişehir Aydın Arat True Path Party (DYP)Gaziantep Celal Doğan Social Democratic Populist Party (SHP)Istanbul Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Welfare Party (RP)İzmir Burhan Özfatura True Path Party (DYP)Kayseri Şükrü Karatepe Welfare Party (RP)Kocaeli Sefa Sirmen Social Democratic Populist Party (SHP)Konya Halil Ürün Welfare Party (RP)Mersin Okan Merzeci Motherland Party (ANAP)Samsun Muzaffer Önder Republican People's Party (CHP) Mayor of other municipalities Province Party Adıyaman RP Afyonkarahisar ANAP Ağrı RP Aksaray RP Amasya white MHP Ardahan DYP Artvin DYP Aydın ANAP Balıkesir DYP Bartın ANAP Batman RP Bayburt RP Bilecik DYP Bingöl RP Bitlis RP Bolu SHP   Province Party Burdur SHP Çanakkale CHP Çankırı white MHP Çorum RP Denizli CHP Edirne CHP Elazığ RP Erzincan white MHP Giresun ANAP Gümüşhane DYP Hakkâri SHP Hatay ANAP Iğdır DYP Isparta DYP Karaman CHP   Province Party Kars white MHP Kastamonu white MHP Kırıkkale ANAP Kırklareli SHP Kırşehir white MHP Kütahya RP Malatya RP Manisa ANAP Kahramanmaraş RP Mardin DYP Muğla SHP Muş RP Nevşehir RP Niğde SHP Ordu ANAP   Province Party Rize RP Sakarya RP Siirt RP Sinop SHP Şırnak ANAP Sivas RP Tekirdağ ANAP Tokat RP Trabzon RP Tunceli SHP Şanlıurfa RP Uşak DYP Van RP Yozgat white MHP Zonguldak ANAP References External links Results of the local elections (in Turkish) https://web.archive.org/web/20090503114719/http://www.yerelnet.org.tr/secimler/?tur=&yil=1994 2009-05-03 Category:Local elections in Turkey Local Category:March 1994 in Turkey