Mehmet Ali Şahin (born 16 September 1950) is a
Turkish politician. He was the
Speaker of the Parliament of Turkey from 2009 to 2011.
He was a member of the parliament for three terms from
Istanbul Province
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and from
Antalya Province
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of the ruling
Justice and Development Party (AK Party). He served as
Deputy Prime Minister
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, Minister of Justice, and as Minister of State responsible for sports.
Şahin is a lawyer and a graduate of
Istanbul University
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faculty of law. Before entering parliament, he was involved in regional politics, serving as the mayor of
Fatih
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district in
Istanbul
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, with the
Welfare Party
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, and later with
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
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's
Justice and Development Party.
On 5 August 2009, he was elected in a third round of voting as the 24th (27th, from the establishment) Speaker of the
Turkish Grand National Assembly
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, succeeding his party colleague
Köksal Toptan.
He was supportive of a solution to the
Kurdish Turkish conflict, and dismissed the concerns of
Turkish nationalists which argue that if Kurds receive more rights it would divide the country. In 2016, he also suggested the release of the imprisoned
members of Parliament from the
Peoples' Democracy Party (HDP) comparing their situation to the one of
Mehmet Haberal, a lawmaker of the
Republican People's Party
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(CHP) who was elected while imprisoned.
References
External links
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1950 births
Deputies of Antalya
Deputies of Istanbul
Deputies of Karabük
Deputy prime ministers of Turkey
Government ministers of Turkey
Istanbul University Faculty of Law alumni
Justice and Development Party (Turkey) politicians
Living people
Ministers of justice of Turkey
Ministers of youth and sports of Turkey
People from Ovacık, Karabük
Speakers of the Parliament of Turkey
20th-century Turkish lawyers
Members of the 24th Parliament of Turkey
Members of the 23rd Parliament of Turkey
Members of the 22nd Parliament of Turkey
Members of the 21st Parliament of Turkey
Members of the 20th Parliament of Turkey
Members of the 26th Parliament of Turkey
Members of the 60th government of Turkey