The 27th Parliament of the Turkish Republic was elected in a snap general election held on 24 June 2018 to the Grand National Assembly. It succeeded the 26th Parliament of Turkey in July 2018 and is due to last until the latter half of 2022. The 600 members, elected through

proportional representation Proportional representation (PR) refers to a type of electoral system under which subgroups of an electorate are reflected proportionately in the elected body. The concept applies mainly to geographical (e.g. states, regions) and political divis ...

from 87 electoral districts of

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula ...

, are shown in the table below.

Current structure

Some deputies entered the election from the list of other parties with which their party formed electoral alliances. Democratic Party president

Gültekin Uysal Gultekin Uysal (born 1976 in İscehisar, Afyonkarahisar Province, Turkey) is a Turkish politician and businessman who has been the chairman of the Democratic Party (DP), since May 2012. In 2018 election he was elected on the İYİ Party list b ...

was in the list of İyi Parti for Afyonkarahisar, Great Unity Party president

Mustafa Destici Mustafa Destici (born 1966 in Eskişehir) is a Turkish politician and the current leader of the Great Union Party (BBP). He graduated from Ankara University Ankara University ( tr, Ankara Üniversitesi) is a public university in Ankara, the c ...

in Justice and Development Party's for Ankara (I), Nazır Cihangir İslam and Abdulkadir Karaduman of

Felicity Party The Felicity Party ( tr, Saadet Partisi, SP) is an Islamist Turkish political party. It was founded in 2001, and mainly supported by conservative Muslims in Turkey. It was founded on 20 July 2001 after the Virtue Party (FP) was banned by the ...

for

Republican People's Party The Republican People's Party ( tr, Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi, , acronymized as CHP ) is a Kemalist and social-democratic political party in Turkey which currently stands as the main opposition party. It is also the oldest political party i ...

in İstanbul (III) and

Konya Konya () is a major city in central Turkey, on the southwestern edge of the Central Anatolian Plateau, and is the capital of Konya Province. During antiquity and into Seljuk times it was known as Iconium (), although the Seljuks also called it D ...

respectively. Following the election, these deputies rejoined their original parties. Süleyman Soylu,

Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu (; born 5 February 1968) is a Turkish diplomat and politician who has served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey since 24 November 2015. He previously served in the same position from August 2014 to August 2015. He is ...

Berat Albayrak Berat Albayrak ( born 21 February 1978) is a Turkish businessman and former politician, and the son-in-law of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. He is a former CEO of Çalık Holding. He was a member of parliament from Istanbul in the 25th ...

and

Abdulhamit Gül Abdulhamit Gül ( tr, Abdülhamit Gül; born 12 March 1977) is a Turkish politician and former Minister of Justice. He is a member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey from Gaziantep. He was previously the General Secretary of the Justice ...

were appointed as ministers, and consequently resigned to take these positions as the current Turkish constitution does not allow MPs to also be ministers. In June 2020, with

Leyla Güven Leyla Güven (born 6 May 1964, Cihanbeyli, Konya, Turkey) is HDP MP for Hakkari, co-chair of the Democratic Society Congress (DTK) and former mayor of the municipality of Viranşehir in the Şanlıurfa Province of Southeast Anatolia of Turkey ...

and Musa Farisoğulları from the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) and Enis Berberoğlu from the

(CHP) three Parliamentarians were dismissed from office and arrested. Berberoğlu was later readmitted to parliament in February 2021. On the 17 March 2021 Ömer Faruk Gergerioğlu of the HDP was also stripped of his parliamentary immunity and dismissed from office.

Members

References

{{Parliamentary terms of Turkey Lists of current national legislators Terms of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey 2018 Turkish general election * 2018 in Turkish politics Political history of Turkey

Grand National Assembly of Turkey The Grand National Assembly of Turkey ( tr, ), usually referred to simply as the TBMM or Parliament ( tr, or ''Parlamento''), is the unicameral Turkish legislature. It is the sole body given the legislative prerogatives by the Turkish Cons ...