Selahattin Çolak

Selahattin Çolak

Mayor of Adana
In office 26 March 1989 – 27 March 1994
Preceded by	Aytaç Durak
Succeeded by	Aytaç Durak
Mayor of Adana
In office 11 December 1977 – 12 Eylül 1980
Preceded by	Ege Bagatur
Succeeded by	Nuri Korkmaz
Personal details
Political party	Republican People's Party (CHP), Social Democratic People's Party (SHP)
Residence	Adana
Occupation	Police chief, business owner

Selahattin Çolak is a politician in Turkey, and served as the mayor of Adana for two terms (1977-1980 and 1989-1994).^[1]

Career

He served at police services before politics. He was the security chief for Süleyman Demirel during the 1970s when Demirel was prime minister of Turkey.

Mayor of Adana

At the municipal elections on 11 December 1977, he was elected Mayor of Adana from Republican People's Party (CHP). On 12 September 1980, he was removed from office by coup d'état with all the other politicians in Turkey. On 26 March 1989 he was elected again as Mayor of Adana.^[2] He served in the post until 1994, and did not run again, when his party, CHP, did not choose him as their candidate.

References

↑ "Mayors of Adana". Adana Municipality.
↑ "Selahattin Çolak". Türkçe Bilgi Ansiklopedisi (Turkish).

Mayors of Adana

Ottoman Era	Sait Efendi (1868-1870) Gözlüklü Süleyman Efendi (1870-1877) Bezdikyan Kirkor Efendi (1877-1879) Sinyor Artin (1879-1881) Hacı Yunus Ağa (1881) Abdülkadir Efendi Bağdadizade (1883-1884) Ahmet Tevfik Bey (1884-1886) Sırkıntılı Hacı Musa Efendi (1886-1888) Ramazanoğlu Kasım (Ener) Bey (1890-1891) Debbağzade Hacı Ali Efendi (1891-1895) İbrahim Rasih Efendi (1895-1899) Hacızade Ali Efendi (Yerdelen) (1899-1903) Ramazanoğlu Süphi Paşa (1903-1906) Ramazanoğlu Tevfik Kadri Bey (1906-1908)(1918-1919) Murtaza Efendi (1908-1913) Süleyman Vahid Efendi (1913-1915) Cemal Bey (1915-1918) Hafız Mahmud Efendi (1920-1921) Şıh Garipzade Kemal (1921-1922) Diblanzade Mehmet Fuat (1922)

Republican Era	Alimünif Bey (Yeğenağa) (1922-1926) Turhan Cemal Beriker (1926-1938) Yusuf Ziya Özbakan (1938) Vedat Güçlü (1938) Kasım Ener (1938-1946) Fazlı Meto (1946-1947) Hazım Savcı (1947-1950) Daniş Arıkoğlu (1950) Numan Güreli (1950) Zahit Akdağ (1951-1954) Ali Sepici (1954-1955)(1959-1960)(1963-1967) Ali Bozdoğanoğlu (1955-1956) Mehmet Hilmi İncesulu (1956-1958) Galip Avşaroğlu (1958-1959) Talat Sungur (1960) Gafur Soylu (1960) Mukadder Öztekin (1960-1963) Erdoğan Özlüşen (1967-1973) Ege Bagatur (1973-1977) M. Selahattin Çolak (1977-1980)(1989-1994) Nuri Korkmaz (1980-1981) Ali Ahmet Kelecek (1981-1984) Aytaç Durak (1984-1989)(1994-2010) Zihni Aldırmaz (2010-2014) Hüseyin Sözlü (2014-)

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