Hüseyin Cemal Akın (born 1949, Malatya) is a

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lawyer, politician, former Mayor of Malatya and former Member of Parliament for the AK Party. His mayoral term was from 2004 to 2009.

Early life and career

Hüseyin Cemal Akın was born in Malatya in 1949. He was the son of his father Osman Avni, and mother Çerkez Meliha. He graduated from the Ankara University, Law School and worked for some time as an independent lawyer. He served to terms in the Malatya Baro Presidency.

Political career

He was the deputy to the party leader of the Demokrat Parti and in the

1999 Turkish general election General elections were held in Turkey on Sunday, 18 April 1999. For the first time, local, council and parliamentary elections were held on the same day. Bülent Ecevit's Democratic Left Party (DSP) had been soaring in popularity after the captu ...

became a candidate for the Demokrat Partis' Malatya MP seat but was not chosen. He joined the

AK Parti 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 contemporar ...

and worked in the creation of the Malatya II Organisation and in the

2002 Turkish general election General elections were held in Turkey on 3 November 2002 following the collapse of the Democratic Left Party–Nationalist Movement Party– Motherland Party coalition led by Bülent Ecevit. All 550 members of the Grand National Assembly were ...

became an AK Parti, Member of Parliament candidate.

Mayor of Malatya

In the

2004 Turkish local elections The Turkish local elections of 2004 were held throughout the eighty-one Provinces of Turkey on 28 March 2004 in order to elect both mayors and councillors to local government positions. All 16 metropolitan and 3,193 district municipalities were u ...

he became the AK Parti Malatya Municipal Mayor candidate and won the position with %51.461 of the vote. He won despite having little to no name recognition compared to his biggest rival in this election MHP candidate Mehmet Yaşar Çerçi. At this time due to the popularity of the

and its charismatic leader

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anyone associated with the AKP would win elections as was in Akıns case. His tenure in this position lasted until 29 March 2009.

Member of Parliament

In the

2011 Turkish general election General elections were held in Turkey on 12 June 2011 to elect the 550 members of Grand National Assembly. In accordance to the result of the constitutional referendum held in 2007, the elections were held four years after the previous elections ...

Akin joined parliament as the AK Parti Malatya MP. He was assigned to the position of the environmental committee at the Grand National Assembly.

Personal life

Akin is fluent in the English language and is married with three children. In 2012 he was wounded in a traffic accident and taken to the hospital. Akin became a grandfather in 2013 and had a second grandchild in January 2018.

References

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