Vedat Dalokay (10 November 1927 – 21 March 1991) was a Turkish architect and a former mayor of Ankara.
Dalokay was born in Elazñàin 1927 to ðbrahim Bey and Emine Hanñm, in an Alevi Kurdish family who had relocated from Pertek. He completed his elementary and secondary education in ElazñÃÂ. He left for Istanbul for higher education, where he attended and graduated from the Istanbul Technical University Faculty of Architecture in 1949. His lecturers were Clemens Holzmeister and Paul Bonatz. Following his graduation in 1949, he entered the Ministry of Works and the Post and Telecommunications Department. In 1950, he settled in Paris to begin postgraduate studies at the City Planning Department of Sorbonne University in Paris, France, but did not graduate.
In the 1973 Turkish local elections, he was elected mayor of Ankara from the Republican People's Party (CHP). In 1975, Dalokay requested assistance from the Soviet Union to build a public transportation system and affordable housing in Ankara. In 1977 Dalokay and other CHP mayors, including ðstanbul mayor Ahmet ðsvan and ðzmit mayor Erol Köse issued a declaration on social municipalism.
Dalokay served as mayor of Ankara until the 1977 Turkish local elections and was replaced by another CHP member, Ali Dinçer, in the post.
Along with numerous national award-winning projects in Turkey, Dalokay has been awarded internationally for the Islamic Development Bank (1981) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
His design for the Kocatepe Mosque in the Turkish capital, Ankara was selected in the architectural competition in 1957 but, as a result of criticism, was not built. Later, a modified design was used as a basis for the Faisal Mosque in Islamabad, Pakistan. In Pakistan, he was also the architect of two not realized buildings, then of the constricted monument Summit Minar, Lahore and is considered a major Turkish influence in Pakistani architecture.
Vedat Dalokay passed away along with his wife Ayçe Dalokay (aged 64) in a traffic accident near Kñrñkkale on 21 March 1991. His son BarÃ±à  Dalokay (aged 17), who was injured in the accident, also died on 27 March 1991.