post-office was opened in 1853. Travel Mezőtúr is a large railroad hub, serviced by MÁV. The railway station and the nearby storage shed are very old. There are five passenger tracks with three platforms, with an additional three freight tracks and a disused storage track. There are daily trains between Mezőtúr and Szolnok, Mezőtúr and Orosháza-Mezőhegyes, as well as being on the important Budapest Keleti-Szolnok-Békéscsaba-Lőkösháza railway line with daily trains to Budapest, among others. There used to be rail service to the nearby town of Túrkeve, but this railroad was closed in the 1960s due to low ridership, and the tracks later removed. Politics The current mayor of Mezőtúr is Zsolt Herceg (Fidesz-KDNP). The local Municipal Assembly, elected at the 2019 local government elections, is made up of 12 members (1 Mayor, 8 Individual constituencies MEPs and 3 Compensation List MEPs) divided into this political parties and alliances: Twin towns – sister cities Mezőtúr is twinned with: Arcuș, Romania Blatná na Ostrove, Slovakia Novi Bečej, Serbia Valea Crișului, Romania Maków Podhalański, Poland Notable people Leslie Gonda (1919-2018), American businessman, born there as Lászlo Goldschmied References External links in Hungarian Populated places in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County