Mevlüt Karakaya (born 1 January 1963) is a Turkish politician from the

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(MHP), who has served as a Member of Parliament for

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since 7 June 2015. Born in

, Karakaya graduated from

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Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences. He became a

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at the age of 37, having continued as an academic in the

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and

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. He also briefly worked at the

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between 1997 and 1998. He has taught at Gazi University,

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, İzmir University of Economics as well as

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. Having been active as a MHP member and serving as a member of the Party Executive Board for 10 years, he was appointed Deputy Leader of the MHP on 19 June 2011 with responsibilities for party finance. He was elected as a MHP Member of Parliament at the June 2015 general election.

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