Murat Başesgioğlu (born 1955) is a Turkish politician who was a Minister of State of Turkey and Member of the

Turkish Parliament The Grand National Assembly of Turkey ( tr, ), usually referred to simply as the TBMM or Parliament ( tr, or ''Parlamento''), is the unicameral Turkish legislature. It is the sole body given the legislative prerogatives by the Turkish Consti ...

for Kastamonu for the ruling

Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi The Justice and Development Party ( tr, Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, ; AKP), abbreviated officially AK Party in English, is a List of political parties in Turkey, political party in Turkey self-describing as Conservative democracy, conservative- ...

(AK Party).

Biography

Başesgioğlu was born in Kastamonu. He completed his primary and secondary education at Isfendiyar Bey primary school in Kastamonu. He later graduated in law from

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and has previously been member of parliament for the centre-right ANAP and the minister of the interior. After graduating, in 1984, he worked as a freelance lawyer for seven years and was registered to the Kastamonu Bar Council. Having resigned from ANAP he joined the AK Party. He also resigned from Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi in 2010 due to opposition to the party's parliamentary policies. He later went and joined the Nationalist Movement Party on 28 January 2011. In the 2011 General Elections and the 2015 General Elections, he was elected as Istanbul deputy from the MHP. He can speak

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, married and has 2 children.

References

* Who is who database
''Biography of Murat Başesgioğlu''

External links

Murat Başesgioğlu's official website
* Ministers of the Interior of Turkey Living people 1955 births Justice and Development Party (Turkey) politicians Deputies of Istanbul Ministers of Youth and Sports of Turkey Motherland Party (Turkey) politicians Ministers of Labour and Social Security of Turkey People from Kastamonu Members of the 25th Parliament of Turkey Members of the 24th Parliament of Turkey Members of the 23rd Parliament of Turkey Members of the 22nd Parliament of Turkey Members of the 21st Parliament of Turkey Members of the 20th Parliament of Turkey Ministers of State of Turkey Members of the 60th government of Turkey Istanbul University Faculty of Law alumni {{Turkey-politician-stub