PodcastFirst district governor from Turkey’s Armenian community takes office
A member of Turkey’s Armenian community has taken office as a governor for the first time in the history of the Turkish Republic. The 27-year-old Berk Acar assumed his duty as the district governor of Denizli's Babadağ.
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A person from Turkey's Armenian community on Aug. 29 took office as governor of a district in Turkey's southwestern Denizli province for the first time in the history of the Turkish Republic.
The 27-year-old Berk Acar will serve as the government's top representative in the Babadağ district.
Acar, born in 1995, attended Sahakyan Nunyan Armenian Middle School and Işık High School. In 2020, he graduated from the faculty of law at Bilgi University. He later took the state exams to be a governor. He came 72nd out of 13,374 people at a written exam conducted in the capital Ankara in July 2021. He was among the 475 people summoned for the interview.