Murat Özçelik
Murat Özçelik (born 1 January 1954) is a Turkish people, Turkish politician, civil servant and diplomat from the Republican People's Party (CHP), who has served as a Member of Parliament#Turkey, Member of Parliament for İstanbul (electoral districts), İstanbul's İstanbul (3rd electoral district), third electoral district since 7 June 2015. He served as the Deputy Leader of the CHP responsible for foreign relations between 3 November 2014 and 11 November 2015. He was part of the CHP delegation during coalition negotiations with the Justice and Development Party (Turkey), Justice and Development Party following the June 2015 Turkish general election, June 2015 general election. Before entering politics, Özçelik served as the Consul General of Turkey in Shanghai from 1997 to 1998, as the List of ambassadors of Turkey to Iraq, ambassador of Turkey to Iraq from 2009 to 2011 and as the Undersecretariat of Public Order and Security, Undersecretary of Public Order and Security from ...
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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 ...
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