Kaj Valentin Turunen (born 27 December 1960 in

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) is a Finnish politician. Turunen was elected to the

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in the 2011 election as a

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candidate from the electoral district of

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with 2,631 votes. In

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, he won a seat in South-Eastern Finland. On 13 June 2017, Turunen and 19 others left the Finns Party parliamentary group to found the

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parliamentary group. In April 2018, he left the party to join the

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. Turunen has a professional education as a construction worker (1978, Jyväskylän ammattikoulu), and has further professional qualifications in entrepreneurship (2008) and leadership (2011), both from

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