Mustafa Sali Karadayi ( bg, Мустафа Сали Карадайъ, tr, Mustafa Sali Karadayı; born 8 May 1970 in

Borino Borino ( bg, Борино, tr, Karabulak) is a village of Smolyan Province in southern Bulgaria. It is the administrative centre of Borino Municipality. Borino is situated in a valley in the Western Rhodope Mountains, at an altitude of . It is ...

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) is a Turkish-Bulgarian politician and current Chairman of the

Movement for Rights and Freedoms The Movement for Rights and Freedoms ( bg, Движение за права и свободи ''Dvizhenie za prava i svobodi'', ДПС, DPS; tr, Hak ve Özgürlükler Hareketi, HÖH) is a centrist political party in Bulgaria with a support base ...

(MRF).

Personal life

Mustafa Karadayi is married and has two children. He graduated from the

University of National and World Economy The University of National and World Economy ( bg, Университет за национално и световно стопанство) is a university in Sofia, Bulgaria. Notable alumni of the university are five Prime Ministers of Bulga ...

Sofia Sofia ( ; bg, София, Sofiya, ) is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria. It is situated in the Sofia Valley at the foot of the Vitosha mountain in the western parts of the country. The city is built west of the Iskar river, and h ...

. His nickname is Saker Falcon.

Academic career

From 1996 to 2001 he was a professor of Informatics at

New Bulgarian University New Bulgarian University ( bg, Нов български университет, also known and abbreviated as НБУ, NBU) is a private university based in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. Its campus is in the western district of the city, known ...

Political career

He is the founder of the Academic Society of MFR in

and a member of the MRF since May 1991. He founded the youth wing of MRF and chaired it from 1998 to 2003. From 2002 to 2010 he was deputy executive director of the Agency for Post-Privatization Control. Secretary of the Central Election Commission IPVR- 2001 mini- '03, the IPVR- '06, the '07 ICHEP-, the mini- '07, the '09 ICHEP-, the Institute for National Remembrance - '09, and Article of '05, the INP- Since 2010, Karadayi was the organizational secretary of the Central Operative Bureau (COB) MRF. Karadayi was elected to the

Bulgarian parliament The National Assembly ( bg, Народно събрание, Narodno sabranie) is the unicameral parliament and legislative body of the Republic of Bulgaria. The National Assembly was established in 1879 with the Tarnovo Constitution. Ordi ...

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. Since 24 December 2015 he was one of three co-chairs of the interim MRF to IX National Conference of the party after

Lyutvi Mestan Lyutvi Ahmed Mestan ( bg, Лютви Ахмед Местан, tr, Lütfi Ahmet Mestan) (born 24 December 1960) is a Bulgarian politician of Turkish-Bulgarian origin. He was chairman of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms from January 2013 to 2 ...

was expelled.

Chairman of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms

On 24 April 2016 he was unanimously elected chairman of the MRF by the IX National Conference of the party.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Karadayi, Mustafa 1970 births Living people Members of the National Assembly (Bulgaria) Bulgarian people of Turkish descent Movement for Rights and Freedoms politicians Bulgarian Muslims University of National and World Economy alumni People from Smolyan Province