Facts: - successor: huseyin sozlu selahattin Colak - party: ap , anap , ak party , mhp - predecessor: selahattin Colak ali ahmet kelecek - office: mayor of adana mayor of adana adana municipal councillor - term end: 30 march 2014 26 march 1989 12 september 1980 - term start: 27 march 1994 25 march 1984 1963 - birth date: 1938 - name: aytac durak - nationality: turkish - birth place: karaisal , adana - occupation: civil engineer Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of aytac durak .
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aytac durak -lrb- born 1938 in karaisal , adana -rrb- is a turkish politician , and has been the mayor of adana since 1984 , excluding one term -lrb- 1989 -- 1994 -rrb- .he is the longest serving locally elected city mayor in turkey , currently at his 5th term .adding his 17 years as a municipal councillor , he will have served the municipality of adana for 42 years by the end of this term .he was the president of the municipalities union of turkey for 17 years and the Cukurova municipalities union for 12 years .aytac durak is the only politician to have run in all the municipal elections since 1973 ; twice as councillor , six times as mayoral candidate , losing only once in the 1989 mayoral race .he is regarded as the doyen of turkey 's local politics .