Volkan Canalioğlu is a Turkish

Turkey

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 politician who served as mayor of Trabzon

Trabzon

Trabzon is a city on the Black Sea coast of north-eastern Turkey and the capital of Trabzon Province. Trabzon, located on the historical Silk Road, became a melting pot of religions, languages and culture for centuries and a trade gateway to Iran in the southeast and the Caucasus to the northeast...

 from 2004 to 2009.

In 2009 he was the Mayoral candidate of the Republican People's Party

Republican People's Party (Turkey)

The Republican People's Party is a centre-left Kemalist political party in Turkey. It is the oldest political party of Turkey and is currently Main Opposition in the Grand National Assembly. The Republican People's Party describes itself as "a modern social-democratic party, which is faithful to...

 (CHP) in Trabzon. Although he was successful, he was ineligible to serve a further term as Mayor.

Biography

He was born in Trabzon - Hizirbey (Sotka). He studied in Kaledibi primary school, Karma primary school and Trabzon High School. Then he graduated from Black Sea Technical University , in 1971. In 1972 He started his career as a teacher. In 1975 while he was a teacher, he joined the army. After he finished his job as a soldier in Isparta

Isparta

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, he started his job as a teacher again. He worked at Trabzon Karma Primary School, Trabzon Industrial Professional High School and Erzurum

Erzurum

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 Poet Nafi Primary School and Mustafa Necati Primary school where he worked as a teacher and deputy manager. While he was manager at Trabzon Derecik Primary school in 1983 he was chosen to be deputy manager of Trabzon Ministry of National Education. In 1985, he was chosen to be manager of Trabzon's Culture and Tourism department. In 1989 he was chosen to be manager of Trabzon's Ministry of Tourism. He worked as vice governor in Trabzon 3 period. After that, he was elected Mayor of Trabzon. In 2009, he couldn't be elected and since 2009, Orhan Fevzi Gümrükçüoğlu has worked in Trabzon as Mayor.

Awards

• 1970 Trabzon Tradition Awards
• 1972 Yenigün Newspaper Amateur Sportman of Year
• 2000 The best manager and director

Membership

• Black Sea Technical University Aware - founder member,
• Great Süleyman Aware - founder member,
• Tourism Aware,
• Trabzon High School's old students association ,
• Tourism association - manager,
• Trabzon handicapped children protect association,
• leucemiad children protect association - manager member,
• Trabzon Sportif Club - member of management,
• Turkey Ministry of Youth and Sport,