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

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and from

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of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party). He served as

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, Minister of Justice, and as Minister of State responsible for sports. Şahin is a lawyer and a graduate of

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faculty of law. Before entering parliament, he was involved in regional politics, serving as the mayor of

Fatih Fatih () is a municipality and district of Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its area is 15 km2, and its population is 368,227 (2022). It is home to almost all of the provincial authorities (including the mayor's office, police headquarters, metro ...

district in

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, with the

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, and later with

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 Jus ...

'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

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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

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(CHP) who was elected while imprisoned.

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