Mansur Yavaş (Valve Dystopia)

Mansur Yavaş ( May 23, 1955- November 7, 2048) was a Turkish politician who served as the Mayor of Ankara (the capital) from 2019 to 2023 and as the 13th President from 2023 to 2033. He was elected in the 2019 local election and the 2023 General Elections as the candidate of the Nation Alliance, an opposition alliance formed by the Republican People's Party (CHP) and the İYİ 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 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 Mayor of Ankara in the 2014 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 local elections to stand again as the CHP's candidate, this time with support from the İYİ Party (which formed the Nation Alliance together with the CHP). He was elected with 50.9% of the vote. With his honest policies while running the capital, as well as his general secularist views as well as nationalist views drawing

support from both "right wing" and "left wing" supporters, Yavaş was a very popular mayor who had a 59% approval rating. Although he wanted to retire from politics after his term as the mayor was over, an overwhelming support from the public, as well as the CHP chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu ultimately led him to be the candidate for the Nation Alliance in the 2023 elections, where he ultimately ended up becoming the president.

Mayor Of Ankara (2019-2023)
On 13 April 2019, the AKP-controlled Ankara Municipal Council attempted to withdraw certain powers from the Mayor and delegate them to the council. Yavaş stated that the attempted power-grab was unlawful and went against the council's bylaws, using his executive power to reject the proposed changes. Yavaş also criticised the previous AKP council's preference to outsource municipal contracts to loss-making companies due to political preferences.

Yavaş is widely praised for his effective and rapid "100-day plan" which saw news coverage in the whole of Turkey. Mansur Yavaş ended the system of family or friends taking power, which was a practice used by the AKP. Yavaş believed Ankara was debt-ridden because of incompetent politicians who were put into power for their affiliations to the AKP rather than merit. Mansur Yavaş began a national charity project which would give bread to poor people in Turkey during the Covid-19 Pandemic, but this was stopped by President Erdoğan and AKP supporters attempted to hack the project. Mansur Yavaş made transportation in the metropolitan area of Ankara free during national and religious holidays. More famously, Yavaş got rid of the luxury Jeeps and cars that were purchased for the Ankara Office by Melih Gökçek. Instead, Mansur Yavaş had these Jeeps offered to couples getting married in Ankara for a day for free. In terms of transportation and infrastructure, Yavaş has criticised the AKP for "neglecting" the issue for "many years," and contacted various firms to construct and preserve bicycle routes and pedestrian pavements to encourage Ankara citizens to decrease fossil fuel emissions. Yavaş also invested into a trade fair in Ankara to rival the world's largest trade fair in China, Canton which allowed Ankara to host the world's largest trade fair.

Mansur Yavaş was praised for attending the victims of the 2020 Aegean Sea earthquake while President Erdoğan went to Van instead to do a party rally.

In late 2020, Yavaş announced he will establish free internet in 928 villages in the Ankara province within 45 days.

Throughout 2020 and 21, Yavaş led a very succesful fight against the COVID-19 pandemic and his help to many people in dire need of help pushed his popularity even further.

Presidential Candidacy
On May, 6 2022 he announced that he would be considering the candidacy offered to him for the 2023 presidential elections. He was endorsed by many popular CHP members, like the parliamentary group leader Özgür Özel, Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu and the party chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu and the İYİ Party chair, Meral Akşener. On December 16, 2022 he officially announced that he would not be retiring from politics and that he wanted to be the candidate. On February 28, 2023 he was officially announced as the candidate for the Nation Alliance, with the YSK (Supreme Electoral Council) announcing him as the candidate 90 days before the election. He would run a very succesful and well-received campaign against the incumbent President Erdoğan, who was growing more and more unpopular due to his poor handling of the pandemic, as well as the Turkish economy being in the worst state it had ever been in the history of the republic. Yavaş would go on to win the election on the second round, and would be inaugurated on August 3, 2023. (see :2023 Turkish Presidential Elections (Valve Dystopia) for the election's details)

Presidency
After being sworn in, Yavaş immediately introduced economic recovery plans to remedy the very poor economy, very high inflation, the value loss of the Turkish Lira against foreign currencies as well as the high unemployment rate, which was announced as 25.6%. These plans would be very succesful, as the exchange rate of USD/TRY would fall down to about 4.56 from 11.34 in just one year, with inflation rates and unemployment going down as well (unemployment was announced as 17.2% on 2024's Q1). He also said that the old parliamentary system that was the system of the country from 1923 to 2018 would be re-introduced. The new and revised constitution that re-introduced this system, as well reinforcing it's weaknesses while making sure that the fiasco that happened in the 2017 referendum would not happen again, was announced on December 12, 2024. On February 7, 2025 Yavaş announced that General Elections (MP seat handout and prime minister election) would happen in early 2026. To represent the switch to the parliamentary system, he officially left CHP on March 16, 2025. The 2026 Turkish general elections that were held on May 30, 2026 was won by CHP and it's candidate, former Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu. On July 1, 2026 the National Assembly elected Yavaş as the president and Yavaş began his 7 year term (according to the new constitution a president would be elected by the National Assembly and would be eligible to serve one 7 year term, very similar to the old parliamentary system that was introduced in 1923.) During this 7 year term, Yavaş and İmamoğlu, who won the 2030 election worked hard to restore the damage done to the country. When Yavaş left the office in 2033, Turkish GDP was US$1.5 Trillion, with inflation standing at only 1.9%, unemployment standing at 4.3% and USD/TRY exchange rate being 1.1. His approval rating on a nationwide poll on May 14, 2033 was 63.2% with Prime Minister İmamoğlu's approval rating being 59%.

Life After Presidency And Death
After his decade long presidency, Yavaş officially retired and lived a quiet life in Beypazarı, Ankara. Being one of the most important political figures in the 21st century, he was not able to be far from the public eye, but he still enjoyed a quiet retirement. On October 26, 2048 Yavaş suffered a cardiac arrest and was taken to Ankara Güven Hospital. He stayed in intensive care and passed away days later. A sorrowful loss, a 4 day nationwide mourning was declared. A state funeral was organized for him and he was buried in the Turkish State Cemetery in Ankara.