sentences:  In the mid-1980s he was governor of Izmir where he is remembered for a large project of road-building and the construction of Adnan Menderes Airport.Gönül eventually became president of the Public Spending Authority (Sayıştay), the country's highest authority on public finance.Gönül was elected to the Turkish parliament for Kocaeli on 18 April 1999, and was part of the vanguard of the incumbent AKP.