Mahmut Tanal (born 1 January 1961) is a

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politician and former lawyer who serves as a Member of Parliament for

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in the

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. He is a member of the Republican People's Party (CHP).

Background

Tanal was born in the Bahçecik village, in

Hilvan Hilvan ( ku, Curnê Reş, ota, قره جورون, translit=KaracurunTahir Sezen, ''Osmanlı Yer Adları (Alfabetik Sırayla)'', T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, Yayın Nu 21, Ankara, p. 235.) is a district of Şanlıurfa ...

, Şanlıurfa in 1961. He studied in the

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law faculty between 1982 and 1986. Between 2005 and 2006, he participated in the political school in

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, and again in 2009 at

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. Between 2006 and 2008, and later between 2010 and 2012, he was a delegate from the Bar of İstanbul to the Turkish Bars Association. He serves as a freelance lawyer. He is married with two children.

Politics

He was elected as a Member of Parliament from İstanbul in the

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from the Republican People's Party. During the

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protests in

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on 1 May 2014, Tanal was reported to have sat down in front of a police vehicle in order to stop it from reaching the protestors. Daily Sabah reports that he was injured in a fight with the police who were trying to remove him. On 9 July 2014, Tanal presented the CHP's objection to

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remaining as Prime Minister while also standing as a presidential candidate in the 2014 presidential election to the

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. In a press statement, he also attributed the objection to the alleged incompatibility of Erdoğan's ideological and political history with the office of the Presidency, and referred to the judicial decision in 2008 to curb Erdoğan's

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state funding due to "violations of democratic and secular principles" as "applying not to a party, but to a person" in this case.

References

External links

MP profile on the Grand National Assembly websitePersonal websitePersonal twitter
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