Governor of Ankara Governor of Ankara The Governor of Ankara (Turkish: "Ankara Valiliği") is the bureaucratic state official responsible for both national government and state affairs in the Province of Ankara. Similar to the Governors of the 80 other Provinces of Turkey, the Governor of Ankara is appointed by the Government of Turkey and is responsible for the implementation of government legislation within Ankara. The Governor is also the most senior commander of both the Ankara provincial police force and the Ankara Gendarmerie. The current governor, Mehmet Kılıçlar, was appointed on 22 September 2014. The Governor of Ankara is appointed by the President
Ankara Roman world near Trier. The city was subsequently passed under the control of the Roman Empire. In 25 BC, Emperor Augustus raised it to the status of a "polis" and made it the capital city of the Roman province of Galatia. Ankara is famous for the "Monumentum Ancyranum" ("Temple of Augustus and Rome") which contains the official record of the "Acts of Augustus", known as the "Res Gestae Divi Augusti", an inscription cut in marble on the walls of this temple. The ruins of Ancyra still furnish today valuable bas-reliefs, inscriptions and other architectural fragments. Two other Galatian tribal centers,