Mehmet Parsak (born 3 March 1979) is a

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politician from the

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(MHP), who has served as a Member of Parliament for

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from 2015 to 2018.

Early life and career

Mehmet Parsak was born on 3 March 1979 in

and graduated from high school there in 1998. He graduated from

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Faculty of Law. He became a lawyer in

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in 2002 and worked in the Turkish Law Institute in 2004. He completed his master's degree at

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and became the President of the Afyonkarahisar and Districts Solidarity Association in 2009.

Political career

Parsak had been involved in the

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, the youth wing of the

(MHP), during his student years. He also attended the first term of the MHP Politics and Leadership School in 2009. He formed the MHP legal action group in 2011. In 2012, he was elected to the MHP Central Executive Committee and was re-elected in the

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in 2015. He was elected as a Member of Parliament for

in the June 2015 general election.

References

External links

MP profile on the Grand National Assembly website

Collection of all relevant news items at Haberler.com
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Early life and career

Political career

See also

References

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