Ali Zengin

Hüseyin Ali Zengin is a Turkish trade unionist and politician born in 1948 in the Beykoz district of Istanbul. He is known as the first mayor to be elected after Beykoz was established as an independent municipality.

He is the third child of a family that immigrated from Trabzon and worked at Sümerbank. He studied at Ahmet Midhat Efendi Primary School and Beykoz Secondary School, but left his education unfinished and started working. At the age of 17, he became a worker in Sümerbank's leather and shoe factory in Beykoz. He carried out union activities here and at the Turkish Deri-İş Union.

mayoralty

He entered politics from the Motherland Party. He became the founding mayor of Beykoz by receiving 47.81 percent of the votes in the 1984 local elections and continued his duty until 1989. During this period, Beykoz Grove was reorganized, bus services were started to the villages of the district, telephone service reached the district and the streets were asphalted. A stadium for Beykozspor and football fields in various neighborhoods were also built during his period.

A book about Zengin's life was published in the biography series introducing the former mayors of Beykoz Municipality.