Editing Mayor (section)

===Turkey===
Mayors ({{Langx|tr|belediye başkanı}}) in Turkey are elected by popular vote for five years alongside the municipal council. As a rule, there are municipalities in all province centers and district centers as well as towns ({{langx|tr|belde}}) which are actually villages with a population in excess of 2000. However, beginning by 1983, a new level of municipality was introduced in the Turkish administrative system. In big cities, metropolitan municipalities ({{langx|tr|Büyükşehir belediyesi}}) are established. (See [[metropolitan municipalities in Turkey]]) In a metropolitan municipality there may be several district municipalities (hence mayors). Mayors are elected in [[Elections in Turkey|local elections.]]