Çetin Muhamer Mandacı born on March 7, 1970 in the Orfano village (Topeiros

Topeiros

Topeiros is a municipality in the Xanthi peripheral unit, Greece. Population 12,199 . The seat of the municipality is in Evlalo....

 municipality, , Xanthi prefecture

Xanthi Prefecture

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), is a Greek politician from the West Thracian Turkish minority

Turks of Western Thrace

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. He has been elected to the Greek Parliament

Hellenic Parliament

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 for the Panhellenic Socialist Movement

Panhellenic Socialist Movement

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 in 2007 and was reelected in 2009

Greek legislative election, 2009

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.

Çetin

Çetin

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 Mandacı studied at the Istanbul University

Istanbul University

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and works as a cardiologist at the General Hospital of Xanthi. He is married to Fikret Gülsüm and has three children.

He was first elected as municipal councilman in Topeiros in 2002 and was its mayor till 2004. He was again elected at the municipal council in 2006.

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