Mansur Yavaş (born 23 May 1955) is a Turkish lawyer, local politician and the former mayor of Beypazarı. He was the mayoral candidate for the metropolitan municipality of Ankara from the Republican People's Party in the local elections of 2014.Yavaş was born in the town of Beypazarı, a district of the Ankara Province of Turkey. His father was a former carpenter who ran a business as a newspaper vendor for which Yavaş worked as a paperboy. He completed his primary and secondary education in Beypazarı and started attending Istanbul University in 1979, graduating with a degree in law in 1983. After completing his mandatory military service as a military prosecutor, Yavaş returned to Beypazarı and began practicing law as a private attorney. Wikipedia