İSKİ General Manager Raif Mermutlu Leaves His Duty

In the written statement made by İBB, it was stated that İSKİ General Manager Raif Mermutlu will retire. In the statement, İSKİ Deputy General Manager Dr. It was stated that Şafak Başa was appointed by proxy.

In a written statement from the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality, Mr. Raif Mermutlu, who has successfully served as the General Manager of İSKİ since September 6, 2019, will leave İSKİ on August 8, 2022 due to retirement. To Mr. Mermutlu; We would like to thank our institution, İBB family and Istanbul residents for their valuable services, and wish them health and happiness in their retirement life. Mr. Şafak Başa, who is still working as the Deputy General Manager of our institution, has been appointed as the General Manager of İSKİ by proxy.

İSKİ Deputy General Manager Dr. Şafak Başa's biography

Born in 1969, Başa graduated from Istanbul University, Faculty of Political Sciences, Department of Public Administration in 1990. She completed the METU School of Foreign Languages ​​English preparatory program in 1992. She took courses on foreign language education and public administration in England between 1993-1994.

Appointed to Tekirdağ Water and Sewerage Administration (TESKİ) General Directorate on March 13, 2015, Dr. Şafak Başa, during her 4,5 years as the General Manager, made great efforts to solve the city's infrastructure problems. During this period, 2.650 km of drinking water, wastewater and rain water investments were made. Tekirdağ gained healthy drinking water, and its wastewater treatment capacity was increased to a record level. As a result of the studies carried out, TESKİ gained an institutional structure in every aspect.

Başa, IMM President on August 9, 2019 Ekrem İmamoğlu He was appointed as Deputy General Manager of Istanbul Water and Sewerage Administration (İSKİ). He served as İSKİ Deputy General Manager for Administrative and Financial Affairs until July 2021. Since then, he has continued his duties as İSKİ Information Processing, Subscriber Services and Networks Assistant General Manager, as well as İSKİ Board Member. Dr. Şafak BAŞA is married and has two daughters.

Academic Career

• District Governorship in Karabük-Yenice (1995-1998) and Ordu-Mesudiye (1998-2002) and Civil Inspectorate in 2002.
• Chief Civil Inspector in 2003. At the same time, he took part in TODAIE's research projects (investigation of local public service standards and research of the level of locality).
• Member of the board of directors of the Association of Public Administration Experts (2007-2008) and member of the supervisory board of the Association of State Auditors (2011-2013).
• TODAIE Public Administration Graduate Program in 2007 with his study titled "Transformation in Civil Administration in the Post-1980 Period".
• In 2008, he made investigations in the field of human resources management in the People's Republic of China.
• Training program named “Professional Communication and Public Management Leadership” in USA Northern Illinois University, College of Business in 2010.
• Hacettepe University PhD Program in 2012. (PhD thesis published as a book by TODAIE)
• In 2016, his second book titled "Atatürk Era Ministry of Internal Affairs and Civil and Local Administrations (1923-1938)".
• Editor of the book titled "The Case of Tekirdağ Water and Waste Water Management Applications".
• He is a founding member of the Board of Trustees at Beykoz University in Istanbul between 2016-2021. (He is still a member of the Advisory Board of this University)
• Member of Hacettepe University Local Administrations Application and Research Center Advisory Board in 2019.
• Also an author, Dr. Şafak Başa's academic studies can be followed on the link safakbasa.com.tr/akademik_calismalar.php.