Muharrem İnce (; born 4 May 1964) is a Turkish physics teacher, school principal, sport executive, and politician. He is the founder and the incumbent leader of the Homeland Party since May 2021. Formerly a four term

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() MP for Yalova, his hometown, he also served as the CHP's parliamentary group deputy chairman between June 2010 and August 2014. İnce has stood for election as CHP chairman twice against former chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu: first in September 2014 following the party's loss in the Turkish presidential election on 18 August 2014, and later in February 2018. As the presidential candidate of the CHP in the 2018 Turkish presidential election, İnce received just over 30 percent of the votes, placing second behind outright first-round winner

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, with 53 percent. In

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, İnce stood for president again, but as an independent candidate. However, before the election day, he suspended his campaign.

Biography

İnce was born in the village of Elmalık in the

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in Greek Macedonia, his maternal grandparents originated from

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coast of

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. He graduated from Balıkesir University, Necatibey Faculty of Education, Physics-Chemistry and later worked as a physics teacher and a school principal. Later, he worked as the Head of Press for football club Yalovaspor. He was elected as president of the Atatürkist Thought Association, a

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organization that espouses the ideas of

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, the founder of modern Turkey. He is married to Ülkü İnce, with whom he has a son named Salih Arda.

Politics

İnce has been known in Turkish politics as one of the fiercest voices of the main opposition since 2002, against the ruling Justice and Development Party (Turkish: Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, abbreviated AKP) of

. He became well known through his speeches which were widely shared on the internet . Following the

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of CHP parliamentary group leaders Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu and as party leader and deputy leader respectively, İnce ran for group leadership and was elected with 58 votes. He was re-elected in 2011 and 2013 and before resigning in August 2014. He was replaced by Levent Gök. On 30 March 2014, Turkey held local elections, and the elections in

Yalova Yalova is a market-gardening town located in northwestern Turkey on the eastern coast of the Sea of Marmara. It is the seat of Yalova Province and Yalova District.18th Republican People's Party Extraordinary Convention in September 2014. He once again stood against Kılıçdaroğlu for party leadership in the 36th CHP Ordinary Convention in February 2018, but his bid once again was unsuccessful. He received 447 votes from delegates, as opposed to Kılıçdaroğlu's 790 votes. While he was a member of the CHP, he represented the nationalist wing. İnce was revealed to be the presidential candidate of the

(CHP) on 3 May 2018. The following day, party leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu formally proclaimed the CHP's support for İnce and his candidacy was formally announced. Shortly thereafter, the CHP began preparations for the campaign season, launching the production of campaign materials and merchandise. It was revealed in early May that İnce's campaign would adopt the slogan “''Türkiye’ye güvence Muharrem İnce''”, roughly translating to "Muharrem İnce, an assurance to Turkey", and that it would be kicked off with an election rally in his home city of

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. İnce announced his resignation from the Republican Peoples' Party on 31 January 2021, and formally resigned on 8 February of the same year. In February 2023, İnce, announced that his party is discussing an

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with the Democratic Left Party, the Memleket Party, True Party and the Justice Party for the

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. On 6 March 2023, İnce left the 4-party alliance negotiations by sending a message to their

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group. He withdrew from the presidential race on 11 May 2023.

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