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Afyonkarahisar (electoral District)
Afyonkarahisar is an electoral district of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. It elects five members of parliament (deputies) to represent the province of the same name for a four-year term by the D'Hondt method, a party-list proportional representation Party-list proportional representation (list-PR) is a subset of proportional representation electoral systems in which multiple candidates are elected (e.g., elections to parliament) through their position on an electoral list. They can also be us ... system. Members Population reviews of each electoral district are conducted before each general election, which can lead to certain districts being granted a smaller or greater number of parliamentary seats. Afyonkarahisar's seats fell from seven to five in the 2011 general election. General elections 2011 June 2015 November 2015 2018 Presidential elections 2014 References {{DEFAULTSORT:Isparta (electoral district) E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District
An electoral district, also known as an election district, legislative district, voting district, constituency, riding, ward, division, or (election) precinct is a subdivision of a larger state (a country, administrative region, or other polity) created to provide its population with representation in the larger state's legislative body. That body, or the state's constitution or a body established for that purpose, determines each district's boundaries and whether each will be represented by a single member or multiple members. Generally, only voters (''constituents'') who reside within the district are permitted to vote in an election held there. District representatives may be elected by a first-past-the-post system, a proportional representative system, or another voting method. They may be selected by a direct election under universal suffrage, an indirect election, or another form of suffrage. Terminology The names for electoral districts vary across countries and, oc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justice And Development Party (Turkey)
The Justice and Development Party ( tr, Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, ; AKP), abbreviated officially AK Party in English, is a political party in Turkey self-describing as conservative-democrat. It is one of the two major parties of contemporary Turkey along with the Republican People's Party (CHP). Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been chairman of AKP since the 2017 Party Congress. The AKP is the largest party in the Grand National Assembly, the Turkish national legislature, with 285 out of 600 seats, having won 42.6% of votes in the 2018 Turkish parliamentary election. It forms the People's Alliance with the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP). The current AKP parliamentary leader is İsmet Yılmaz. Founded in 2001 by members of a number of parties such as FP, ANAP and DYP, the party has a strong base of support among people from the conservative tradition of Turkey, though the party strongly denies it is Islamist. The party positioned itself as pro-liberal market economy, sup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felicity Party
The Felicity Party ( tr, Saadet Partisi, SP) is an Islamist Turkish political party. It was founded in 2001, and mainly supported by conservative Muslims in Turkey. It was founded on 20 July 2001 after the Virtue Party (FP) was banned by the Constitutional Court. While the party's reformist wing formed the Justice and Development Party (AKP), the hardliners founded the Felicity Party. Although an Islamist party, its policy platform covers the whole span of political issues in Turkey. The Felicity Party's vote has been weakened by the success of the moderately Islamic Justice and Development Party government, although it has repeatedly condemned the Turkish government's desire to join the European Union, military ties with Israel and the United States. It has argued that Turkey must adapt its military and foreign policy stance to meet what it argues are increasing threats coming from the West to all Muslim countries. The Felicity Party's policy platform is based strongly a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democratic Party (Turkey, Current)
The Democrat Party ( tr, Demokrat Parti), abbreviated to DP, is a liberal conservative Turkish political party, established by Ahmet Nusret Tuna in 1983 as the True Path Party ( tr, Doğru Yol Partisi or DYP). It succeeded the historical Democrat Party and the Justice Party, two parties with similar ideologies. Their sister party is the Good Party. There have been four DYP governments since its foundation; one led by Süleyman Demirel, the other three by Turkey's first and only female Prime Minister, Tansu Çiller. The party now has two seats in the Grand National Assembly, elected in the lists of the Good Party during the 2018 general election. On 5 May 2007, it was announced that DYP and the Motherland Party (ANAP) would merge to form the Democrat Party (''Demokrat Parti''). For that occasion, DYP renamed itself (based on the historical Democrat Party), and it was planned that ANAP would join the newly founded DP. Shortly before the election, however, the merging attempt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gültekin Uysal
Gultekin Uysal (born 1976 in İscehisar, Afyonkarahisar Province, Turkey) is a Turkish politician and businessman who has been the chairman of the Democratic Party (DP), since May 2012. In 2018 election he was elected on the İYİ Party list but then he rejoined his party. Biography Gültekin Uysal was born in 1976 in İscehisar, Afyonkarahisar Province, Turkey. He graduated Department of Political Science and Public Administration from Bilkent University Bilkent University ( tr, Bilkent Üniversitesi) is a private university located in Ankara, Turkey. It was founded by Prof. İhsan Doğramacı in 1984, with the aim of creating a center of excellence in higher education and research. It is constan .... References 1976 births Bilkent University alumni 21st-century Turkish politicians Living people People from İscehisar Turkish businesspeople {{turkey-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burcu Köksal
Burcu Köksal (born 18 January 1980) is a Turkish politician from the Republican People's Party (CHP), who is currently the Mayor of Afyonkarahisar. She previously served as a Member of Parliament for Afyonkarahisar from 7 June 2015 until she was elected mayor in 2024. Early life and career Burcu Köksal was born on 18 January 1980 to a family of teachers in Afyonkarahisar. She completed her primary and secondary education in Afyonkarahisar and graduated from Istanbul University Faculty of Law. She has been a lawyer in Afyonkarahisar since 8 March 2004. Political career Koksal served as President of the Republican People's Party (CHP) Afyonkarahisar Women's Branch in 2007. Köksal contested CHP preselection for the June 2015 general election, she beat incumbent CHP MP Ahmet Toptaş for the first place list position, and was subsequently elected as the lone CHP Member of Parliament for Afyonkarahisar. She was narrowly re-elected in the snap November 2015 elections. Köksal was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahmet Toptaş
Ahmet Toptaş (3 February 1949 – 11 September 2022) was a Turkish politician from the Republican People's Party (CHP), who served as a Member of Parliament for Afyonkarahisar. Early life and career Ahmet Toptaş was born on 3 February 1949. He attended Ankara University where he graduated with a degree in law. Toptaş worked as a High School chemistry teacher and worked as a freelance lawyer from 1981 until his election to parliament in 2011. Political career Toptaş ran in the 2011 parliamentary elections in Afyonkarahisar for the CHP where he was placed first on the list, and was subsequently elected as the lone CHP MP from Afyon. Toptaş ran for reelection in 2015, but was defeated in the CHP primary losing the first place list position to Burcu Köksal and placing last on the list for Afyonkarahisar overall. He subsequently withdrew his candidacy. Toptaş died from lymphoma on 11 September 2022, at the age of 73. See also *24th Parliament of Turkey This is a list of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Republican People's Party
The Republican People's Party ( tr, Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi, , acronymized as CHP ) is a Kemalist and social-democratic political party in Turkey which currently stands as the main opposition party. It is also the oldest political party in Turkey, founded by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the first president and founder of the modern Turkish Republic. The party is also cited as the founding party of modern Turkey. The CHP describes itself as a ''modern social-democratic party, which is faithful to the founding principles and values of the Republic of Turkey". Its logo consists of the Six Arrows, which represent the foundational principles of Kemalism: republicanism, reformism, laicism (Laïcité/Secularism), populism, nationalism, and statism. It is the main opposition party to the ruling conservative Justice and Development Party (AKP) in the Grand National Assembly with 135 MPs. The political party has its origins in the various resistance groups founded during the Turki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mehmet Parsak
Mehmet Parsak (born 3 March 1979) is a Turkish politician from the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), who has served as a Member of Parliament for Afyonkarahisar from 2015 to 2018. Early life and career Mehmet Parsak was born on 3 March 1979 in Afyonkarahisar and graduated from high school there in 1998. He graduated from Selçuk University Faculty of Law. He became a lawyer in Ankara in 2002 and worked in the Turkish Law Institute in 2004. He completed his master's degree at Gazi University and became the President of the Afyonkarahisar and Districts Solidarity Association in 2009. Political career Parsak had been involved in the Grey Wolves, the youth wing of the Nationalist Movement Party (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 11th Nationalist Movement Party Ord ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nationalist Movement Party
The Nationalist Movement Party (alternatively translated as Nationalist Action Party; tr, Milliyetçi Hareket Partisi, MHP) is a Turkish far-right and ultranationalist political party. The group is often described as neo-fascist, and has been linked to some violent paramilitaries and organized crime groups. The party is represented by 48 MPs in the Turkish Parliament which support the AKP government. Its leader is Devlet Bahçeli. The party was formed in 1969 by former Turkish Army colonel Alparslan Türkeş, who had become leader of the Republican Villagers Nation Party (CKMP) in 1965. The party mainly followed a Pan-Turkist and Turkish nationalist political agenda throughout the latter half of the 20th century. Devlet Bahçeli took over after Türkeş's death in 1997. The party's youth wing is the Grey Wolves (''Bozkurtlar'') organization, which is also known as the "Nationalist Hearths" (''Ülkü Ocakları'') which contributed to the political violence in Turkey in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ali Özkaya
Ali Özkaya (born 20 April 1970) is a Turkish politician and lawyer from the Justice and Development Party (AKP), who has served as a Member of Parliament for Afyonkarahisar since 7 June 2015. He is currently the lawyer of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Born in the Çayüstü village of Dinar, Afyonkarahisar, he was educated at Isparta Imam Hatip school and graduated from Ankara University Faculty of Law in 1992. He became a freelance lawyer in Ankara and also received further education in the field of commercial law at Gazi University between 1993 and 1995. Having been an unsuccessful AKP candidate in the 2007 and 2011 general elections, he became a legal advisor at the AKP headquarters in 2012 and became the lawyer of the then-AKP leader and then-Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. He continued to serve as Erdoğan's lawyer after his election as President in 2014. He was elected as an AKP Member of Parliament in the June 2015 general election. See also *25th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hatice Dudu Özkal
Hatice Dudu Özkal (born 13 September 1966) is a Turkish theologian, and politician. She served as an MP in the Turkish Grand Assembly with the Justice and Development Party (AK Party). Özkal was born on 13 September 1966 in Bolvadin in Afyonkarahisar Province, Turkey. She completed her higher education in Islamic theology at the Ankara University. Between 1992 and 2000, she worked as a teacher at Afyon Anadolu Imam-Hatip High School. After the 2009 local elections, Özkal served as an Afyonkarahisar Municipal Councillor. She was elected as an AK Party Member of Parliament for Afyonkarahisar in the November 2015 general election. Özkal is one of the founding members of Ali Babacan's newly formed Democracy and Progress Party. Hatice Dudu Özkal is married, and has three children. See also * 26th Parliament of Turkey The 26th Parliament of the Turkish Republic was elected in a snap general election held on 1 November 2015 to the Grand National Assembly. It succeede ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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