Ali Özkaya (born 20 April 1970) is a

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politician and lawyer from the

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(AKP), who has served as a Member of Parliament for Afyonkarahisar since 7 June 2015. He is currently the lawyer of Turkish President

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. Born in the Çayüstü village of

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, Afyonkarahisar, he was educated at

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and graduated from

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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

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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.

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MP profile on the Grand National Assembly website

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