2014 Ankara mayoral election his fourth term as Mayor of Ankara, while Yavaş was also expected to win strong support from the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP). The strategic importance of Ankara as Turkey's capital city caused concerns over whether the vote would proceed fairly, with both Gökçek and Yavaş criticising each other for planning irregularities before the vote. The counting process in Ankara was widely seen as the most fraudulent in the country, with accusations of vote theft and burning, the intentional miscalculation of results from ballot boxes and even an armed intervention by unidentified gunmen in a vote counting centre within the pro-CHP
History of Ankara end of the 4th century, St. Jerome, a native of Galatia, observed that the language spoken around Ankara was very similar to that being spoken in the northwest of the Roman world near Trier. This may indicate that the older Phyrigian population had adopted the language of the Celtic invaders. The city was subsequently conquered by Augustus in 25 BC and passed under the control of the Roman Empire. Now the capital city of the Roman province of Galatia, Ancyra continued to be a center of great commercial importance. Ankara is also famous for the "Monumentum Ancyranum" ("Temple of Augustus