Asim Güzelbey
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Asim Güzelbey, previously and still informally called Antep; ʻayn tāb is a city in southeast Turkey and amongst the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world. The city is located 185 kilometres northeast of Adana and 127 kilometres by road north of Aleppo, Syria...
, Turkey
Turkey
Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...
) is a Turkish politician of the Justice and Development Party
Justice and Development Party (Turkey)
The Justice and Development Party , abbreviated JDP in English and AK PARTİ or AKP in Turkish, is a centre-right political party in Turkey. The party is the largest in Turkey, with 327 members of parliament...
(AK Party) and the current mayor of Gaziantep.
Asim Güzelbey is a surgeon by profession. He graduated in medicine. From 1974-1978, having specialized in knee surgery in Sweden, he studied at the Karolinska Hospital. In 1981, he began working as an orthopedic specialist at the Social Security Hospital in Gaziantep.
He worked as a volunteer doctor in Azerbaijan after the 1992 conflict.
From 1998-2003 he worked in the Konukoğlu hospital.
In the 2004 local government elections he scored 57.3% of the vote and was elected mayor of Gaziantep.
He stood for a second term in the 29 March 2009 election
Turkish local elections, 2009
Turkey held local elections on 29 March 2009. The overal winner was the ruling party Justice and Development Party, although the party saw a decline in its vote relative to the 2007 general election...
and won 54.3% of the vote.
He is married with two children.