The 34th Ordinary Convention of the Republican People's Party was held on 19 July 2012 in order to elect 60 members to the Party Council and 15 members to the High Disciplinary Board of the

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. 1,282 delegates were eligible to vote. Former party leader

Altan Öymen Mehmet Altan Öymen (born 20 June 1932) is a Turkish journalist, author and former politician. Biography Öymen was born on 20 June 1932. He completed his secondary education at the Atatürk High School in Ankara. He graduated from the School ...

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Party Council

434 party members were a candidate to win a seat in the party council, with the top 52 candidates who won the most votes being elected. Furthermore, 8 members were elected from a Science, Culture and Executive quota as proposed by the party leader

Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu (; born 17 December 1948), also referred to by his initials KK, is a Turkish politician who served as the Leader of the Republican People's Party, leader of the Republican People's Party (CHP) from 2010 to 2023. He was Lis ...

, for a total of 60 members.

Directly elected (52 members)

The members elected to the Party Council are as follows, with the number of votes they received in brackets. *

Haluk Koç Ahmet Haluk Koç (born 3 October 1954) is a Turkish politician who serves as the spokesperson and deputy leader of the Republican People's Party (CHP) since 2012. He was a Member of Parliament for Samsun between 2002 and 2015 and serves as an MP ...

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Şafak Pavey Şafak Pavey (born 10 July 1976) is a Turkish diplomat, columnist and politician. She was a member of the Turkish Grand National Assembly from the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) representing Istanbul Province. She is the first di ...

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Murat Karayalçın Murat Karayalçın (born 26 October 1943) is a prominent Turkish politician. He is a former foreign minister (1994–1995), deputy prime minister, and a former mayor of Ankara (1989–1993). He is the founder (in 2002) of the new SHP. Of Hamshe ...

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Ayşe Gülsün Bilgehan Ayşe Gülsün Bilgehan (born Ayşe Gülsün Toker, 25 February 1957) is a Turkish politician from the Republican People's Party (CHP), who has served as the Member of Parliament for Ankara's first electoral district since 2015. She previously ...

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Gökhan Günaydın Gökhan () is a Turkish forename meaning "ruler of the sky". The name comes from "gök" ('sky') and ''han'', the Turkish equivalent of Khan. Most likely, the first appearance of the name Gökhan is as one of the six sons of Oghuz Khagan, the l ...

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İhsan Özkes İhsan Özkes (born 1 August 1957) is a Turkish politician, and cleric. Early life and education Özkes was born on 1 August 1957 in Çorum, Turkey. He graduated from Ankara İmam Hatip Lisesi in 1976 and served as an imam in Alaca for some tim ...

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Veli Ağbaba Veli Ağbaba (born 3 April 1968) is a Turkish politician from the Republican People's Party (CHP), who has served as a Member of Parliament for Malatya since 12 June 2011. Early life and education Veli Ağbaba was born in Yazıhan, Malaty ...

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Candan Yüceer Candan Yüceer (born 4 May 1973) is a Turkish politician from the Republican People's Party (CHP). She is the current Mayor of Tekirdağ. Also, she has served as a Member of Parliament for Tekirdağ from 28 June 2011 to 14 May 2023. Early life ...

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Osman Faruk Loğoğlu Osman is the Persian and Turkish transliteration and derived from the Arabic masculine given name Uthman ( ''‘uthmān'') or an English surname. Osman or Osmans may refer to: People * Osman (name), people with the name and surname * Osman I (1 ...

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Hurşit Güneş Hurşit Güneş (born 23 April 1957) is a Turkish politician and professor of economics, who had served as deputy chairman of Republican People's Party (CHP); and he has been deputy of Kocaeli Province since 2011. He was born on to Turan Güne� ...

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İlhan Cihaner İlhan Cihaner (born 23 February 1968, Kağızman), is a Turkish people, Turkish leftist politician and a former prosecutor. He's a parliamentary deputy for the Republican People's Party (CHP) since 2011. He was the Chief Public Prosecutor of Erz ...

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Fikri Sağlar Fikri Sağlar (born 1953) is a Turkish social democrat politician. He was Minister of Culture in the early 1990s, and a member of the parliamentary commission which investigated the Susurluk scandal. He has been a columnist for ''Birgün''. In ...

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Mehmet Emrehan Halıcı Mehmed or Mehmet is the most common Turkish form of the Arabic male name Muhammad () (''Muhammed'' and ''Muhammet'' are also used, though considerably less) and gains its significance from being the name of Muhammad, the prophet of Islam. Origina ...

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Sezgin Tanrıkulu Sezgin Tanrıkulu (born May 27, 1963) is a Turkish human rights lawyer known for his defense of the rights of Kurdish people, Kurdish citizens. He is currently serving as an MP in the Turkish Grand Assembly with the Republican People's Party (CH ...

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Gürsel Tekin Gürsel Tekin (born 6 January 1964 in Ardahan, Turkey) is a Turkish politician of Kurdish descent and vice-president of Republican People's Party (CHP). Biography Gürsel Tekin was born in the Karlıyazı (Kırziyan) village of the Göle Dis ...

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Ercan Karakaş Ercan may refer to: Given name *Ercan Akbay (born 1959), writer, painter and musician *Ercan Aktuna (1940–2013), Turkish football player *Ercan Durmaz (born 1965), Turkish-German actor * Ercan Muslu (born 1988), Turkish long-distance runner * E ...

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Gülseren Onanç Gülseren Yıldırım (born 1973) is a Turkish-French singer, whose output covers a wide range of genres, including pop, Latin, techno, and traditional Turkish music. Despite having lived in France for most of her life, she was selected to repre ...

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Bülent Tezcan Bülent Tezcan (born 18 May 1965) is a Turkish lawyer and politician from the Republican People's Party (CHP) who has served as the Member of Parliament for Aydın Aydın ( ''EYE-din''; ; formerly named ''Güzelhisar; Greek: Τράλλει� ...

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Bülent Kuşoğlu Bülent is a Turkish masculine given name and a family name meaning "tall" and "high", from Persian ''boland'' or ''buland'' () which means ''tall'', ''high'', ''elevated'', or ''lofty''. The equivalent form in Azeri is Bülənd. It may refer to: ...

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Tekin Bingöl Tekin Bingöl (born 1 August 1955) is a Turkish politician who served as the Deputy Leader of the Republican People's Party responsible for political organisation from 8 May 2014 to 22 March 2022. He has served as a Member of Parliament for Ank ...

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Gökçe Pişkin Gökçe is a common unisex Turkish given name. In Turkish, "Gökçe" means sky blue, brave, flamboyant person. People Given name * Gökçe (singer) (born 1979), full name Gökçe Dinçer, Turkish pop singer * Gökçe Akyıldız (born 1992), Turk ...

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Erdoğan Toprak Erdoğan Toprak (born 10 December 1961) is a Turkish politician and businessman from the Republican People's Party (CHP), who has served as the Member of Parliament for İstanbul's third electoral district since 2011. Having served as the MP ...

(601) * Emel Yıldırım (599) * Ekrem Kerem Oktay (595) * Meryem Gül Çiftçi (582) * Lamia Yıldız Tokman (580) * Kutsiye Benan Baykal (578) *

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Science, Culture and Executive quota (8 members)

The members elected through the Science, Culture and Executive quota to the Party Council are as follows, with the number of votes they received in brackets. *

Metin Feyzioğlu Metin Feyzioğlu (born 7 July 1969) is a Turkish lawyer and a professor of criminal law who served as the 8th president of the Turkish Bars Association between May 2013 and December 2021. Metin Feyzioğlu was appointed as Türkiye's new ambassado ...

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Oğuz Oyan Oghuz or Oğuz may refer to: *an early Turkic word for 'tribe', see Oghuz (tribe) * Oghuz languages, southwestern branch of the Turkic language family * Oghuz Turks, the Turkic groups speaking Oghuz languages * Oghuz Khan, a legendary and semi-myt ...

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Hülya Güven Hülya is a feminine Turkish given name. The name means "daydream" in Turkish. Etymology It derived from the Arabic word "Khulya" (خوليا) meaning melancholia, from the Greek "(melan)xolía" (μελαγχολία) meaning "black bile". Give ...

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Burhan Şenatalar Burhan (, ) is an Arabic male name, an epithet of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad. It is especially popular in Turkey, as it respects Turkish vowel harmony and the end syllable "-han" can be interpreted as the Turkish variant of "Khan". Origin ...

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High Disciplinary Board

The 15 members elected to the High Disciplinary Board are as follows. *İhsan Kalkavan *Şenal Sarıhan *Tülay Ateş *Atila Emek *Süleyha Sumru Karaer *Mustafa Moroğlu *Saniye Barut *Sezgin Kaya *Soner Karakuş *Refik Eryılmaz *Zühal Sirkecioğlu Dönmez *Selahettin Balta *Turan Aydoğan *Mümin Akgün *Mustafa Ülker Caner

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