Mahmut Tanal (born 1 January 1961) is a Turkish politician and former lawyer who serves as a Member of Parliament for

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in the

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. He is a member of the Republican People's Party (CHP).

Background

Tanal was born in the Bahçecik village, in Hilvan, Şanlıurfa in 1961. He studied in the Istanbul University law faculty between 1982 and 1986. Between 2005 and 2006, he participated in the political school in Bahçeşehir University, and again in 2009 at

Okan University Istanbul Okan University is a private university in Istanbul, Turkey. History The university was founded by Okan Culture, Education, and Sports Foundation in 1999 and began its academic life in 2003–2004. Since the 2006–2007 academic year, ...

. Between 2006 and 2008, and later between 2010 and 2012, he was a delegate from the Bar of İstanbul to the

Turkish Bars Association The Turkish Bars Association (correctly, the Union of Turkish Bar Associations) or ''Türkiye Barolar Birliği'' (TBB) has been established in 1969 and is an organisation for Turkish lawyers, uniting over 70,000 lawyers in 79 Turkish bar associat ...

. He serves as a freelance lawyer. He is married with two children.

Politics

He was elected as a Member of Parliament from İstanbul 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 election ...

from the Republican People's Party. During the Labour Day protests in

Taksim Square Taksim Square ( tr, Taksim Meydanı, ), situated in Beyoğlu in the European part of Istanbul, Turkey, is a major tourist and leisure district famed for its restaurants, shops, and hotels. It is considered the heart of modern Istanbul, with the c ...

on 1 May 2014, Tanal was reported to have sat down in front of a police vehicle in order to stop it from reaching the protestors. Daily Sabah reports that he was injured in a fight with the police who were trying to remove him. On 9 July 2014, Tanal presented the CHP's objection to Recep Tayyip Erdoğan remaining as Prime Minister while also standing as a presidential candidate in the 2014 presidential election to the Supreme Electoral Council of Turkey. In a press statement, he also attributed the objection to the alleged incompatibility of Erdoğan's ideological and political history with the office of the Presidency, and referred to the judicial decision in 2008 to curb Erdoğan's

AK Party 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 contempora ...

state funding due to "violations of democratic and secular principles" as "applying not to a party, but to a person" in this case.

References

External links

MP profile on the Grand National Assembly websitePersonal websitePersonal twitter
{{DEFAULTSORT:Tanal, Mahmut 1961 births Living people Contemporary Republican People's Party (Turkey) politicians Members of the 25th Parliament of Turkey Members of the 24th Parliament of Turkey Members of the 26th Parliament of Turkey Members of the 27th Parliament of Turkey Istanbul University Faculty of Law alumni