Veysi Kaynak (born 1 January 1962) is a

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politician from the

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(AKP) who currently serves as a

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in the

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since 24 May 2016. He is a

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since the June 2015 general election, having previously served from 2007 to 2011. Kaynak was active in local politics for numerous years before becoming an MP, serving as a municipal councillor, President of the Municipal Council, President of the Budgetary Commission and Deputy Mayor at the Municipality of Kahramanmaraş. He later served as the Mayor of Kahramanmaraş briefly in 1999 before being elected as an MP in the 2007 general election. In 2011, he was appointed as the Deputy Minister of Justice and served until 2015. He is still a Deputy President of the

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(IACA).

Early life and career

Veysi Kaynak was born on 1 January 1962 in

. He graduated from Kahramanmaraş

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in 1981 and graduated from

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Faculty of Law in 1985. He worked as a freelance lawyer following graduation and served as an executive board member in the private sector. In 1987, he became the Provincial Secretary of the

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Kahramanmaraş Branch.

Early political career

Kahramanmaraş local politics

As a member of the Islamist Welfare Party, Kaynak served as a Kahramanmaraş Municipal Councillor between 1989 and 1999. During his two terms as councillor, to which he was first elected in the 1989 local elections and re-elected in the 1994 local elections, he also served as Deputy Mayor, Interim Mayor, President of the Municipal Council and President of the Budgetary Commission. From January to April 1999, he served as the Mayor of Kahramanmaraş. In 2001, he was the founding Deputy President of the

in Kahramanmaraş and also the President of Political and Legal Affairs. From 2002 to 2007, he was the Provincial President of the AKP's Kahramanmaraş branch before resigning to contest a seat in the

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in the forthcoming general election.

Parliamentary career

Kaynak was elected as a

for

in the 2007 general election. He was later made the President of a commission investigating the

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that killed the leader of the

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along with five others shortly before the 2009 local elections. He also served as the President of the Turkey-

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Inter-parliamentary Friendship Group. Kaynak became an MP for a second time in the June 2015 general election, again being elected from Kahramanmaraş. He was re-elected in the November 2015 snap general election, becoming a member of the Parliamentary Justice Commission and the Deputy Chairman of the Parliamentary Security and Intelligence Commission. Between his two non-consecutive terms as an MP, he served as the Deputy Minister of Justice from 2011 to 2015.

Deputy Prime Minister

Following the announced resignation of Prime Minister

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on 5 May 2016 as the leader of the AKP, an Extraordinary Congress was held to elect his successor on 22 May 2016.

was the only candidate and was appointed

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two days later on 24 May 2016, with Kaynak becoming one of the five

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along with

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and

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in Yıldırım's government.

Controversies

In 2010, Veysi Kaynak was caught committing ballot fraud by attempting to present marked ballot papers belonging to MPs not in the Parliamentary chamber during the voting procedures concerning International Agreements in Parliament. Having observed that the low number of AKP MPs present could endanger the vote, Kaynak hid large numbers of ballot papers in his bag and presented them during voting to guarantee the vote in the government's favour. In 2010, Kaynak caused controversy after he submitted a proposed bill that would lift prison sentences from office-holders that had committed bribery and used their powers for personal gain.

References

External links

MP profile on the Grand National Assembly websiteAll relevant news items at Haberler.com
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kaynak, Veysi Living people 1962 births People from Kahramanmaraş Justice and Development Party (Turkey) politicians Welfare Party politicians Deputy Prime Ministers of Turkey Members of the 23rd Parliament of Turkey Members of the 25th Parliament of Turkey Members of the 26th Parliament of Turkey Members of the 65th government of Turkey Istanbul University Faculty of Law alumni Deputies of Kahramanmaraş