Ahmet Özer

Ahmet Özer (born 1960, Van) is a Turkish academic and politician.

Ahmet Özer
Mayor of Esenyurt
Preceded by	Kemal Deniz Bozkurt
Succeeded by	Can Aksoy
Personal details
Born	1960 (age 64–65) Muradiye, Van, Turkey
Political party	New Democracy Movement (1994-1996) Democratic People's Party (2002) Social Democratic People's Party (2004) Peoples' Democratic Party[1] (2015) Republican People's Party (2011, 2023-present)

He was among the founders of the New Democracy Movement, which was active in the 1990s.^[2] In the 2024 Local Elections, he was elected mayor of Esenyurt, a district in Istanbul.^[3] However, following his arrest on charges of "being a member of an armed terrorist organization," he was temporarily removed from office by a decision of the Ministry of the Interior.^[4][5]