The Mayor

Personal background and education

Born in Lefkoşa in 1975. He attended Gönyeli Primary School and completed his secondary and high school education at the Türk Maarif Koleji. He studied Public Administration at the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences of Gazi University in Ankara and, after graduating, took a master's degree in Management Sciences at the Department of Public Administration of Gazi University's Institute of Social Sciences.

He is married and has a daughter.

Sporting career

One of the symbolic names of Gönyeli Sports Club and of Turkish Cypriot football, Hüseyin Amcaoğlu played 20 seasons in the Super League between 1990 and 2010. He was part of every national football team formed between 1995 and 2010 and captained the TRNC national team for many years. A founding member of the Turkish Cypriot Footballers' Association, he was elected its chairman at its first general assembly and served in that post for five years.

Professional career

After completing his master's degree in 2002, he passed the District Officer examination in 2004 and served as a District Officer at the Ministry of the Interior from 2004 to 2016. In that time, alongside personnel matters and all administrative affairs, he was responsible for everything concerning local government. In the same period he served as a member of the Civil Defence Committee and of the Prison Advisory Board.

• From May 2016 to June 2020 he was Director at the Ministry of the Interior.
• From June 2020 to February 2021 he was Undersecretary at the Ministry of Tourism and Environment.
• From February 2021 to December 2022 he was Undersecretary of the Prime Ministry of the TRNC.

As undersecretary he was responsible for the Commission against Drugs and the European Union Coordination Centre, and he also chaired the Probation Board, the Halloumi Coordination Board and the TRNC Technical Delegation.

Mayor

Elected Mayor of Gönyeli-Alayköy in the local elections of December 2022, he has served as Mayor of Gönyeli-Alayköy since.