Dursun Müsavat Dervişoğlu (born February 1, 1960) is a Turkish businessman, politician and the leader of the Good Party.

Biography

Dervişoğlu was born in Ankara to a family from Fatsa, where he later moved to and studied primary and secondary school in. He completed his high school education in Fatsa, Ankara, and Samsun. In 1978, he enrolled in the Ankara Academy of Economics and Commercial Sciences, Faculty of Business Administration, Department of Business Administration, but his education was interrupted by the

1980 Turkish coup d'état The 1980 Turkish coup d'état ( tr, 12 Eylül Darbesi), headed by Chief of the General Staff General Kenan Evren, was the third coup d'état in the history of the Republic of Turkey, the previous having been the 1960 coup and the 1971 coup by ...

. Later, he completed his undergraduate education at Gazi University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Business Administration, where relied on student financial aid. He started his career in the

Nationalist Task Party Nationalist Task Party or Nationalist Labour Party ( tr, Milliyetçi Çalışma Partisi) was founded on 30 November 1985, when the Conservative Party changed its name. Its first president is Ali Koç. This party sought the votes of Nationalist Mov ...

(MÇP). He was the Fatsa District president of the Nationalist Youth Association (ÜGD) in 1978, and the Fatsa chairman of the Grey Wolves from 1987 to 1989, and the Youth Culture and Art Hearths Association in 1988. In 1989, he was dismissed from his position in the Youth Culture and Art Hearths Association, and had a position at the MÇP headquarters, given to him by

Alparslan Türkeş Alparslan Türkeş (; 25 November 1917 – 4 April 1997) was a Turkish politician, who was the founder and president of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) and the Grey Wolves ''(Ülkü Ocakları)''. He represented the far-right of the Turkish ...

himself. Then, he was sent to Izmir by Türkeş to serve in the MÇP İzmir Provincial Organization. He later joined the Nationalist Movement Party and undertook important positions in various levels and youth organizations of the party. He was the MHP İzmir Provincial Chairman between 2000 and 2011, and ran for mayor of Izmir in the 2009 Local elections. In the 2011 general election, he was a candidate for MHP İzmir deputy. He was a candidate for MHP chairman at the MHP congress in 2012, but he could not win. Between 2018 and 2019, he was the deputy chairman of the Good Party in charge of local administrations. In 2019, he became the deputy chairman of the Good Party parliamentary group and also the 27th term Izmir deputy. In the Susurluk Report, Kocaeli criminal organization leader Hadi Özcan, who was stated to have a connection with

Mehmet Eymür Mehmet Eymür (born 1943 in Istanbul) is a retired Turkish intelligence official. In 1995-6 he led the counter-terrorism department of the National Intelligence Organization (MIT), which he joined as a student in 1965 as a "pursuit officer" ( tr, ...

, claimed that Müsavat Dervişoğlu was the right-hand man of Eymür in his statement at the parliament. Dervişoğlu denied the allegations of Doğu Perinçek who had claimed that Dervişoğlu had tried to assassinate him in the past as part of a job with the

MİT The National Intelligence Organization ( tr, Millî İstihbarat Teşkilatı, MİT) is the state intelligence agency of Turkey. Established in 1965 to replace National Security Service, its aim is to gather information about the current and po ...

Personal life

Müsavat Dervişoğlu moved to Izmir in 1991 and works in trade outside of politics. He has one daughter. Dervişoğlu's name Müsavat means equality in

Ottoman Turkish Ottoman Turkish ( ota, لِسانِ عُثمانى, Lisân-ı Osmânî, ; tr, Osmanlı Türkçesi) was the standardized register of the Turkish language used by the citizens of the Ottoman Empire (14th to 20th centuries CE). It borrowed extens ...

. He has a brother named 'Hürriyet' (meaning liberty) and a sister named 'Adalet' (meaning justice). These words collectively make up the Young Turks and their political party

CUP A cup is an open-top used to hold hot or cold liquids for pouring or drinking; while mainly used for drinking, it also can be used to store solids for pouring (e.g., sugar, flour, grains, salt). Cups may be made of glass, metal, china, clay, ...

's slogan ''Hürriyet, Müsavat, Adalet'' or "Liberty, Equality, Justice".

References

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