Fatih Mehmet Maçoğlu
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Fatih Mehmet Maçoğlu | |
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| Mayor of Tunceli | |
| In office 5 April 2019 – 6 April 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Tuncay Sonel |
| Succeeded by | Cevdet Konak |
| Mayor of Ovacık | |
| In office 2 April 2014 – 3 April 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Mustafa Sarıgül |
| Succeeded by | Mustafa Sarıgül |
| Personal details | |
| Born | December 20, 1968 |
| Party | Communist Party of Turkey |
Fatih Mehmet Maçoğlu (Also known as 'The Communist Mayor'[1]) (born 20 December 1968, Çemberlitaş, Ovacık District[2]) is a Turkish communist politician of Kurdish descent[3] and founder of Socialist Councils Federation (SMF). He was the mayor of Tunceli, representing the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP), from 2019 to 2024.
He was born in the village of Çemberlitaş in Tunceli Province in December 1968 and attended primary school in Ovacık and health high school in Bingöl.[2]
Professional career
From 1989 onwards he worked in healthcare. First in Bozkir in Konya and between 1992 and 2007 in Pertek, Tunceli.[2] From 2007 onwards he worked in emergency care in the Tunceli state hospital. He resigned from his work in hospital in order to stand as a mayoral candidate for Ovacik in the local elections of 2014.[2]