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
History of Ankara in 1356. Another Turkic ruler, Timur, defeated the Ottomans at the Battle of Ankara in 1402 and captured the city, but in 1403 Ankara was again under Ottoman control. Following the Ottoman defeat during World War I, the Ottoman capital Constantinople was occupied by the Allies. The Turkish nationalist movement, under Kemal Atatürk, established its headquarters in Ankara in 1920 (see Turkish War of Independence). After the War of Independence was won, the Turkish nationalists abolished the Ottoman Empire on October 29, 1923. A few days earlier, on October 13, 1923, Ankara had replaced Constantinople as its capital, and it