Tunç Soyer

In the 2019 mayoral election, which was held as part of the 2019 local elections, Soyer was elected with 58.1% of the vote, beating the People's Alliance candidate Nihat Zeybekçi. Zeybekçi, a former Economy Minister, received 38.7% of the vote. Tunç Soyer has organized many fairs under the leadership of İzmir Metropolitan Municipality.

When Tunç Soyer became the CHP's candidate for Mayor of İzmir in 2019, the governing People's Alliance that includes the MHP sharply criticised him for his father's actions against nationalist politicians. However, Nurettin Soyer was also defended for being the only prosecutor ever to bring a case against Fethullah Gülen, the leader of the Gülen Movement, an organisation that is claimed to be a terrorist group by Turkish authorities (under the name 'FETÖ'.)

In addition to serving as Mayor of Seferihisar and İzmir, Soyer served as an advisor to the former mayor of İzmir, Ahmet Piriştina. He also served as the assistant general secretary and executive member for foreign relations in the İzmir Chamber of Commerce. He was the General Secretary for the EXPO 2015 Steering and Executive Committees.

Soyer was elected Mayor of Seferihisar, a coastal district of İzmir, in the 2009 local election. He was the candidate of the main opposition center-left Republican People's Party (CHP). He was re-elected for a second term in the 2014 local election.

Tunç Soyer and Neptün Soyer got married in 1988, when Neptün Soyer was 22 years old. Neptün Soyer, worked in the tourism sector between 1999 and 2002.

Soyer's father, Nurettin Soyer, was a prosecutor who took part in opening cases against prominent politicians following the 1980 coup d'état. His prosecutions led to 5 death sentences, 9 life sentences and sentences ranging from 10 months to 36 years for another 221 defendants. Most of those prosecuted were from far-right groups, most notably the Grey Wolves. One defendant who received 5 years in prison was Alparslan Türkeş, the founder and first leader of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP).

Mustafa Tunç Soyer (born 1959) is a Turkish politician from the Republican People's Party (CHP) who currently serves as the Mayor of İzmir, Turkey's third largest city. He was elected to the position in the 2019 mayoral election. He previously served as the Mayor of Seferihisar, a coastal district of İzmir, from 2009 to 2019.

Soyer was born in Ankara, the capital city of Turkey, in 1959. He graduated from Bornova Anadolu Lisesi, a prestigious high school in Bornova, a district of İzmir in which he received classes in foreign languages particularly in English and French before returning to Ankara to attend Ankara University Faculty of Law. He graduated in 1981. During his education, he was also an actor and assistant theatrical director. He completed two master's degrees, one in Webster University Geneva in the field of international relations and another at Dokuz Eylül University about the European Union.