Vasip Şahin | |
Birth Place: | Bayburt, Turkey |
Alma Mater: | Istanbul University |
Occupation: | Civil servant |
Nationality: | Turkish |
Party: | Justice and Development Party |
Office: | 38th Governor of Ankara |
Term Start: | November 6, 2018 |
President: | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan |
Predecessor: | Ercan Topaca |
Office1: | 21st Governor of İstanbul |
Term Start1: | September 25, 2014 |
Term End1: | November 1, 2018 |
Predecessor1: | Hüseyin Avni Mutlu |
Successor1: | Ali Yerlikaya |
President1: | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan |
Office2: | 37th Governor of Malatya |
Term Start2: | August 31, 2012 |
Term End2: | September 24, 2014 |
President2: | Abdullah Gül Recep Tayyip Erdoğan |
Predecessor2: | Ulvi Saran |
Successor2: | Süleyman Kamçı |
Office3: | 6th Governor of Düzce |
President3: | Abdullah Gül |
Predecessor3: | Bülent Kılınç |
Successor3: | Adnan Yılmaz |
Term Start3: | June 7, 2010 |
Term End3: | August 17, 2012 |
Vasip Şahin (born 1964) is a Turkish civil servant. Currently, he serves as the Governor of Ankara Province.
He was born in Bayburt in 1964. He completed his primary, secondary and high school education in Erzincan. In 1985, Şahin graduated from Faculty of Law in Istanbul University.
Vasip Şahin is married, and is father of three.
He began his civil servant career as a district governor candidate in Erzincan in June 1986. He was sent to the United Kingdom for further studies for one year in 1987. Upon returning home, he served as district governor in Küre, Kastamonu, Pütürge, Malatya, Mudurnu, Bolu, Kızılcahamam, Ankara, and then as deputy province governor in Muş and Düzce.
In 2003, Şahin was appointed legal advisor at the Ministry of the Interior and department head at the General Directoriate of Civil Defence. He served as deputy general manager and later as general manager of the Provincial Administration between 2005 and 2010.
Vasip Şahin became province governor in Düzce in 2010 serving until 2012. His next post was governor of Malatya. On September 15, 2014, he was appointed governor of Istanbul Province. He took of on September 25.