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28th Parliament Of Turkey
The 28th Parliament of Turkey was elected at the 2023 Turkish parliamentary election. It succeeded the 27th Parliament of Turkey in May 2023. The Member of Parliament#Turkey, 600 members, elected through proportional representation from Electoral districts of Turkey, 87 electoral districts of Turkey, are shown below. Composition Changes Changed parties due to electoral alliance Switched parties * Mustafa Sarıgül (Party for Change in Turkey, TDP → Republican People's Party, CHP) * Mithat Sancar (Peoples' Democratic Party (Turkey), HDP → Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party, DEM) * Pervin Buldan (Peoples' Democratic Party (Turkey), HDP → Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party, DEM) * İdris Nebi Hatipoğlu (Good Party → Independent politician, Independent → Justice and Development Party (Turkey), AKP) * Çiğdem Kılıçgün Uçar (Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party, DEM → Democratic Regions Party, DBP) * Salihe Aydeniz (Democratic Regions Party, DBP ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Numan Kurtulmuş
Numan Kurtulmuş (born 15 September 1959) is a Turkish politician and academic who is currently the speaker of the Grand National Assembly. He served as Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey in the 62nd, 63rd, 64th and 65th AKP governments between 2014 and 2017 and Minister of Culture and Tourism between 2017 and 2018. Previously he served as the leader of Felicity Party between 2008 and 2010 and People's Voice Party between 2010 and 2012. Personal life Family Kurtulmuş was born in Ünye district of Ordu Province. He is of Georgian descent by his grandmother. His grandfather Numan Kurtulmuş who served as a major in the Turkish War of Independence on the Çanakkale, Erzurum, Batumi and Azerbaijan fronts and fought in the Balkans and the Battle of Sakarya then later has injured and retired as a veteran. He is also the author of Faith Commentary, known as the first Turkish religious guide which written by the Latin alphabet. His father is Dr. Ismail Niyazi Kurtulmuş. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Path
The New Path (YY; ) is a Turkish political party that was founded by the Felicity Party (SP), Democracy and Progress Party (DEVA) and the Future Party (GP) to create a joint parliamentary group. The party's chairman is Celal Mümtaz Akıncı, a former member of the Constitutional Court. In the Turkish Grand National Assembly, it has a total of 27 deputies—23 under its own structure and 4 from the founding parties. With this number, it constitutes the fifth-largest group in the parliament. Although New Path is officially a political party, it primarily serves as a parliamentary group uniting Saadet, Gelecek, and DEVA, which have different political views. These parties maintain their unique political identities, ideologies, and programs while cooperating on common issues. This structure aims to create a more effective opposition bloc, exert greater influence on parliamentary decision-making processes, and better represent various social segments. History Before the 2023 p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral Districts Of Turkey
The electoral system of Turkey varies for Elections in Turkey#Parliamentary elections, general, Elections in Turkey#Presidential elections, presidential and Elections in Turkey#Local elections, local elections that take place in Turkey every five years. Turkey has been a multi-party democracy since 1950 (officially since 1945), with the first democratic election held on 1950 Turkish general election, 14 May 1950 leading to the end of the single-party rule History of the Republic of Turkey, established in 1923. The current electoral system for electing Member of Parliament#Turkey, Members of Parliament to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, Grand National Assembly has a 7% election threshold. A brief summary of the electoral systems used for each type of election is as follows: *General elections: The D'Hondt method, a party-list proportional representation system, to elect 600 Members of Parliament to the Grand National Assembly from 87 Electoral districts of Turkey, elector ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Proportional Representation
Proportional representation (PR) refers to any electoral system under which subgroups of an electorate are reflected proportionately in the elected body. The concept applies mainly to political divisions (Political party, political parties) among voters. The aim of such systems is that all votes cast contribute to the result so that each representative in an assembly is mandated by a roughly equal number of voters, and therefore all votes have equal weight. Under other election systems, a bare Plurality (voting), plurality or a scant majority in a district are all that are used to elect a member or group of members. PR systems provide balanced representation to different factions, usually defined by parties, reflecting how votes were cast. Where only a choice of parties is allowed, the seats are allocated to parties in proportion to the vote tally or ''vote share'' each party receives. Exact proportionality is never achieved under PR systems, except by chance. The use of elector ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
27th Parliament Of Turkey
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 was due to last until the latter half of 2022. The 600 members, elected through proportional representation from 87 electoral districts of Turkey, 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 was in the list of İyi Parti for Afyonkarahisar, Great Unity Party president Mustafa Destici in Justice and Development Party's for Ankara (I), Nazır Cihangir İslam and Abdulkadir Karaduman of Felicity Party for Republican People's Party in İstanbul (III) and Konya respectively. Following the election, these deputies rejoined their original parties. Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, Süleyman Soylu, Abdülhamit Gül and Berat A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
67th Cabinet Of Turkey
The Fifth Erdoğan Cabinet is the 67th and current government of the Turkey, Republic of Turkey. It was declared on 3 June 2023. The cabinet was announced after the Third inauguration of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, inauguration of president Erdoğan. Fahrettin Koca and Mehmet Ersoy are the only ministers who also served in the 66th cabinet of Turkey, previous cabinet, though Koca has later been dismissed hence leaving Ersoy as the sole member of the cabinet having served in the previous one. Composition References External links Presidential Cabinet Presidency of the Republic of Türkiye {{DEFAULTSORT:Erdogan Cabinet Cabinets of Turkey 2023 in Turkish politics 2023 establishments in Turkey Cabinets established in 2023 Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Members of the 67th government of Turkey, Current governments in Asia, Turkey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (born 26 February 1954) is a Turkish politician who is the 12th and current president of Turkey since 2014. He previously served as the 25th prime minister of Turkey, prime minister from 2003 to 2014 as part of the Justice and Development Party (Turkey), Justice and Development Party (AKP), which he co-founded in 2001. He also served as mayor of Istanbul from 1994 to 1998. Coming from an Islamist background and promoting socially conservative policies, Turkey has experienced increasing authoritarianism, democratic backsliding and suppression of dissent under Erdoğan's rule. Erdoğan was born in Beyoğlu, Istanbul, and studied at the Marmara University, Aksaray Academy of Economic and Commercial Sciences, before working as a consultant and senior manager in the private sector. Becoming active in local politics, he was elected Welfare Party's Beyoğlu district chair in 1984 and Istanbul chair in 1985. Following the 1994 Istanbul mayoral election, 1994 lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Independent Politician
An independent politician or non-affiliated politician is a politician not affiliated with any political party or Bureaucracy, bureaucratic association. There are numerous reasons why someone may stand for office as an independent. Some politicians have political views that do not align with the platforms of any political party and therefore they choose not to affiliate with them. Some independent politicians may be associated with a party, perhaps as former members of it or else have views that align with it, but choose not to stand in its name, or are unable to do so because the party in question has selected another candidate. Others may belong to or support a political party at the national level but believe they should not formally represent it (and thus be subject to its policies) at another level. In some cases, a politician may be a member of an unregistered party and therefore officially recognised as an independent. Officeholders may become independents after losing or r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felicity Party
The Felicity Party (, SAADET) is an Islamism, Islamist Turkey, 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 (Turkey), Virtue Party (FP) was banned by the Constitutional Court of Turkey, Constitutional Court. While the party's reformist wing formed the Justice and Development Party (Turkey), Justice and Development Party (AKP), the hardliners founded the Felicity Party. Although an Islamist party, its policy platform covers the whole span of political issues in Turkey. The Felicity Party's vote has been weakened by the success of the moderately Islamic Justice and Development Party (Turkey), Justice and Development Party government. It has repeatedly condemned the Turkish government's desire to join the European Union, and relationship with Israel and the United States. It has argued that Turkey must adapt its military and foreign policy stance to meet what it argue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democrat Party (Turkey, Current)
The Democrat Party (), abbreviated to DP, is a liberal conservative Turkish political party, established by in 1983 as the True Path Party ( or DYP). It succeeded the historical Democrat Party and the Justice Party, two parties with similar ideologies. Their sister party is the Good Party. The DYP is seen as a centre-right party. DYP's history spans back to the historical conservative Democrat Party, established in 1946 with the introduction of a multi-party system in Turkish politics. There have been four DYP governments since its foundation; one led by Süleyman Demirel, the other three by Turkey's first and only female Prime Minister, Tansu Çiller. The party now has two seats in the Grand National Assembly, elected in the lists of the Good Party during the 2018 general election. On 5 May 2007, it was announced that DYP and the Motherland Party (ANAP) would merge to form the Democrat Party (''Demokrat Parti''). For that occasion, DYP renamed itself (based on the histori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democracy And Progress Party
The Democracy and Progress Party (, DEVA) is a Turkish political party founded on 9 March 2020 under the leadership of Ali Babacan, a former economy minister under the AKP. The official abbreviation is "DEVA" (''Remedy'' in Turkish) according to the party records. The party's logo is a water droplet, inside a silhouette of sapling. History DEVA Party is a political party in Turkey formed by former Economy Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan as the result of a split from Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's Justice and Development Party. The party is currently being represented by 15 seats at the Grand National Assembly. The founders of the party also include former Minister of Justice Sadullah Ergin, former Minister of Science, Industry, and Technology, Nihat Ergün and former Minister of State Selma Aliye Kavaf, who all served in Erdoğan cabinets for many years; and the former Balıkesir mayor Ahmet Edip Uğur from the Justice and Development Party as well. Babacan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
