PLEA FOR JOURNALISTS; Press Unit Aid for 34 Sought by Daily Worker Official
Date: 23 May 1955
Daily Worker ed A Max asks Inter-Amer Press Assn intervene for 34 journalists facing deportation or denaturalization
Mansur Yavaş Birthday, Date of Birth
Mansur Yavaş (Turkish pronunciation: [mɑnˈsuɾ jɑˈvɑʃ]; born 23 May 1955) is a Turkish lawyer and politician who is currently the Mayor of Ankara, holding the office since April 2019. He was elected in the 2019 Ankara mayoral election as the candidate of the Nation Alliance, an opposition alliance formed by the Republican People's Party (CHP) and the Good Party.
A lawyer by profession, Yavaş originally entered politics as a nationalist politician. He was the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Mayor of Beypazarı, a district of Ankara, in the 1999 Turkish local elections. He served until 2009 and left the MHP in 2013. He joined the CHP the same year and was the CHP's candidate for the 2014 Ankara mayoral local election, where official results claimed that he had lost by 1 percentage point. The elections were disputed and were even referred to the European Court of Human Rights due to alleged fraud and irregularities. Despite briefly leaving the CHP, Yavaş returned to politics before the 2019 Turkish local elections to stand again as the CHP's candidate, this time with support from the Good Party, which formed the Nation Alliance together with the CHP). He was elected with 50.9% of the vote.
Yavaş received praise for his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ankara, where he announced that wages for municipal workers would continue being paid and that street cats and dogs would continue to be fed despite the closure of restaurants and cafes. He has also been credited with substantially reducing the municipality's budget deficit by eradicating spending seen as wasteful.
According to Piar Araştırma, Yavaş had a satisfaction rating of 73.2% in 2020, greater than Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu or President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and the highest of mayors polled. Yavaş holds the highest approval rating of any Turkish politician at 61%. He won the 2021 World Mayor Capital Award.
He was re-elected with a wide margin of victory in the 2024 mayoral election. Due to his popularity, he is seen as a potential presidential contender for the next Turkish presidential election.
Read more...- Birthday, Date of Birth
- Monday, May 23, 1955
- Place of Birth
- Beypazarı
- Age
- 70
- Star Sign
- ♊
The May 23, 1955 was a Monday under the star sign of ♊. It was the 142 day of the year. President of the United States was Dwight D. Eisenhower.
If you were born on this day, you are 70 years old. Your last birthday was on the Friday, May 23, 2025, 143 days ago. Your next birthday is on Saturday, May 23, 2026, in 221 days. You have lived for 25,711 days, or about 617,083 hours, or about 37,025,025 minutes, or about 2,221,501,500 seconds.
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23rd of May 1955 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on May 23, 1955
BRICKER RESTATES AMENDMENT CASE; Senator Stresses 'Moral and Religious' Arguments Here --Reporting Criticized
Date: 23 May 1955
Bricker defends amendment on moral and religious basis, s, NYC; charges careless press reptg; cites NY Times rept on '53 s by F Holman; says Times account (My 12,14:5) of May 11 Sen subcom hearings failed to mention testimony of Bricker backers Dr G A Finch and Vigilant Women for Bricker Amendment; says amendment backer V Hatch has been under news blackout; ed note recalls prior refs to Finch and Hatch as Bricker backers
SOVIET FARM PLAN FACES OBSTACLES; Weather and Transportation Big Hazards, but Chance of Success Is Called Fair
Date: 23 May 1955
By CLIFTON DANIELSpecial to The New York Times
Daniel sees fair chance for success in steppes program
News of Food; The Rice Table, a Touch of Indonesia, Appears at East of Suez, on E. 58th St.
Date: 24 May 1955
By JANE NICKERSON
Jane NICKERSON
Shipping News and Notes; City Hall Pickets Protest Vacant Piers on West Side -- Weeks Mum on Atom Ship
Date: 24 May 1955
35 dockers and merchants picket City Hall to protest idle piers, lower W Side
Hagerty Foresees Color
Date: 23 May 1955
Hagerty predicts news confs on color TV, s, TV 'pioneers' dinner; hon for work in arranging televising of confs