Hüseyin Sözlü

Hüseyin Sözlü (May 2th, 1965, Çokçapınar, Ceyhan - ), Member of Nationalist Movement Party is the President of Adana Metropolitan Municipality and former Mayor of Ceyhan.

Life
He completed his elementary education in the village and his secondary education in Ceyhan Yaltır Kardeşler Secondary School and Ceyhan Industrial Vocational High School. Later, he entered Erzurum Atatürk University Faculty of Agriculture and graduated in 1989 as an agricultural engineer. In 1990, he started working as a business engineer in the General Directorate of State Hydraulic Works. In 1997, DSİ was appointed as chief engineer of operations and maintenance.

From 1999 to 2013 three consecutive terms were selected from the Nationalist Movement Party to Ceyhan Municipality. In local elections held on March 30, 2014, Adana Metropolitan Municipality Mayor was elected with 33.51% of the vote.

In addition to this, he is the General Director of the Employers' Union of Local Administrators.

He is married and has three children.

Corruption case
He was sentenced to 5 years imprisonment for the crime of "corruption, bribery, bribery and giving mediation to theperformance of my deed" in the case of Ceyhan Municipality, where he allegedly corrupted some of the streets and streets of the cobbles and caused public loss of approximately 3 million pounds.