List of Turkish politicians

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This is a list of notable politicians in the Republic of Turkey.

Contents: A B C Ç D E F G H I İ J K L M N O Ö P R S Ş T U Ü V Y Z

A

Meral Akşener - vice speaker of parliament, leader of İyi Party
Yıldırım Akbulut - prime minister
İsmail Rüştü Aksal - CHP secretary general
Ekrem Alican- YTP leader
Oya Araslı- politician (CHP)
Hamdi Apaydın - First term MP
Saffet Arıkan - Government minister
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk - Founder and first President of the Turkish Republic
Mehmet Ali Aybar - leader of TİP

B

Ali Babacan – vice prime minister
Devlet Bahçeli - leader of MHP - vice prime minister
Cemil Sait Barlas - Government minister
Faik Ahmet Barutçu - Government minister
Celal Bayar - president - leader of DP
Deniz Baykal – leader CHP
Hikmet Bayur - Government minister
Behice Boran - leader of TİP
Ferruh Bozbeyli - Parliament speaker
Mahmut Esat Bozkurt - Government minister
Osman Bölükbaşı -leader of MP

C

Necdet Calp -leader of HP
İsmail Cem - leader of YTP, foreign minister

Ç

İhsan Sabri Çağlayangil - senate chairman, acting president
Fevzi Çakmak – leader of MP
Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu - foreign minister
Hikmet Çetin - leader of CHP
Vasıf Çınar - Government minister
Hatı Çırpan - first female villager parliament member
Tansu Çiller - leader of DYP, female prime minister

D

Süleyman Demirel - leader of AP, leader of DYP, prime minister, president
Ali Dinçer - mayor of Ankara, deputy chairman of the assembly

E

Bülent Ecevit - leader of DSP, prime minister
Rahşan Ecevit -leader of DSP
Necmettin Erbakan, prime minister
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan - leader of AK Party, prime minister, president
Nihat Erim - prime minister
Kenan Evren - president

F

Turhan Feyzioğlu- leader of CGP

G

Reşit Galip - Minister of National Education
Mübeccel Göktuna -leader of the first women's party
Şemsettin Günaltay-prime minister
Abdullah Gül - prime minister, president
Kasım Gülek -secretary general of CHP
Birgül Ayman Güler- vice president of CHP
Cemal Gürsel- president and prime minister
Gencay Gürün - MP, dramatist, diplomat
Kemal Güven - parliament speaker
Aydın Güven Gürkan - leader of HP, SHP

I

Sadi Irmak - prime minister

İ

Tevfik İleri - Government minister
Müfide İlhan - first female mayor (Mersin)
Erdal İnönü – leader of SODEP, SHP, vice prime minister
İsmet İnönü - leader of CHP, prime minister, president

K

Atilla Karaosmanoğlu
Murat Karayalçın -leader of SHP
Cahit Karakaş - Parliament speaker
Cezmi Kartay - leader of SODEP
Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu - leader of CHP
Refik Koraltan - chairman of the parliament
Fahri Korutürk - president
Sadık Kutlay - minister of settlement

M

Ferit Melen - prime minister
Adnan Menderes - prime minister
Hüseyin Numan Menemencioğlu -Government minister
Güldal Mumcu - Parliament vice speaker
Mustafa Hamarat - AK Party Deputy General Secretary

N

Mustafa Necati (Uğural) - Three times government minister
Fatma Esma Nayman - one of the earliest female MPs

O

Ali Fethi Okyar - prime minister
Rauf Orbay - chairman of the government - opposition leader (in early parliament)

Ö

Huriye Öniz - one of the first female MPs
Turgut Özal - leader of ANAP; prime minister, president
Fahrettin Özdilek - vice prime minister
Altan Öymen - leader of CHP

P

Recep Peker - prime minister

S

Hasan Saka - prime minister
Şükrü Saracoğlu- prime minister
Kemal Satır -secretary general of CHP
Refik Saydam- prime minister
Gün Sazak - government minister
Nur Serter - CHP MP
Ahmet Necdet Sezer - president
Zeki Sezer - leader of DSP
Fuat Sirmen -Parliament speaker
Cevdet Sunay - president
Faruk Sükan - Government minister

Ş

Mustafa Şentop - Parliament speaker

T

Naim Talu - prime minister
Ali Rana Tarhan - Government minister
Emine Ülker Tarhan - group chair women of CHP
Yusuf Kemal Tengirşenk - Government minister
Alparslan Türkeş – leader of MHP
Ahmet Fikri Tüzer - acting prime minister

U

Necdet Uğur - Government minister
Bülent Ulusu - prime minister
Hilmi Uran - Government minister
Behçet Uz - Government minister

Ü

Gülkız Ürbül - first female villagehead
Suat Hayri Ürgüplü - prime minister
Mustafa Üstündağ - Government minister
Besim Üstünel -Government minister

Y

Binali Yıldırım - prime minister
Dilek Akagün Yılmaz - CHP MP
Mesut Yılmaz - leader of ANAP, prime minister
Lebit Yurdoğlu - minister of Settlement

Turkish politicians serving in other countries

Lale Akgün - German politician
Nebahat Albayrak - Dutch politician
Osman "Oz" Bengür, Maryland Democratic Party Congressional Candidate
Sevim Dağdelen - German politician
Ekin Deligöz - German politician
Rauf Denktaş - Politician, Former President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
Ahmed Djemal - Politician, Member of the Young Turks
Ahmed Doğan - Human rights activist and politician, leader of Movement for Rights and Freedoms.
Fatma Ekenoğlu - Politician
John Eren, politician brother of Tayfun Eren.
Tayfun Eren, Politician, He was the first person of Turkish birth to be elected to a Parliament in Australia
Hakkı Keskin - German politician
Fazıl Küçük - Politician, Vice President of Cyprus
Vural Öger - German politician
Cem Özdemir - German Politician
Ferdi Sabit Soyer – Politician
Mehmet Ali Talat - Politician, President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
Zeki Velidi Togan - Politician, Historian
Emel Etem Toshkova - Bulgarian politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Bulgaria (current)
Ziya Gökalp - Politician, Poet
Fatin Rüştü Zorlu - Politician, Diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey

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