The Özal family is a political family in

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, the most prominent member being

Turgut Özal Halil Turgut Özal (; 13 October 192717 April 1993) was a Turkish politician, who served as the 8th President of Turkey from 1989 to 1993. He previously served as the 26th Prime Minister of Turkey from 1983 to 1989 as the leader of the Mothe ...

, the 8th

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(1989–1993) and

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(1983–1989). The family has been active in

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since the 1970s. Özal was a popular political figure in Turkey and founded the Motherland Party in 1983, which won the general elections of the same year. After his death in 1993, his son

Ahmet Özal Tevfik Ahmet Özal (born 3 December 1955) is a Turkish politician, the son of former Turkish President and Prime Minister Turgut Özal and a member of the Özal family. He has been an MP, and co-founded the Uzan Group and later the Özal Group. C ...

succeeded him as the ''de facto'' patriarch of the family. *Mehmet Sıddık Özal (1900–1953) and Hafize (1906–1988): **

(1927–1993) and Semra Yeğinmen (born 1934): ***Zeynep Özal (born 1955), businesswoman **** Yağız Ekren **** Uğur Ekren ***

(born 1955), politician and businessman **** Merve Özal **** Turgut Özal ***Efe Özal (born 1968), businessman **** Kaan Turgut Özal **** Semra Naz Özal **** Serra Özal **

Korkut Özal Korkut Özal (29 May 1929 – 2 November 2016) was a Turkish engineer and politician. He was the brother of Turkish President Turgut Özal and . His cause of death in 2016 are respiratory and circulatory failure. Academic career Korkut Özal s ...

(1929–2014), politician ***F. Zehra Özal *** Murat Mehmet Özal (1955–2013), businessman ***H. Ayşegül Özal ***M. Ali Özal ***A. Bahaddin Özal ** Yusuf Bozkurt Özal (1940–2001), politician *** İbrahim Reyhan Özal (born 1965 in

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), politician **** Ceyda Özal **** İrem Özal **** Kerim Özal **** Meryem Özal **** Enes Özal ***Elif Özal Danışman (born 1968 in Ankara) **** Ömer Kaan Danışman (born 1991, in Brussels) **** Ilayda Nur Danışman (born 1996, in Brussels) **** Emir Can Danışman (born 1999, in Ankara) ***Yasemin Özal Fırat (born 1971 in Ankara) **** Lara Fırat (born 2002, in Ankara) **** Lina Fırat (born 2003, in Ankara)

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's son,

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, remained in parliament until 2002. His younger brother Efe stayed out of politics and is a businessman. Efe's son, Kaan Turgut Özal, who was born the day after his grandfather Turgut's burial in 1993 and was named after him, briefly said in an interview that he was interested in politics and wanted to follow in his grandfather's footsteps.

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