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Karabük (electoral District)
Karabük is an electoral district of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey created in 1995. It elects three members of parliament (deputies) to represent the province of the same name for a five-year term by the D'Hondt method, a party-list proportional representation system. Until 1995, voters were registered to Zonguldak or Çankırı Çankırı, historically known as Gangra (Greek language, Greek: Γάγγρα), is a city in Turkey, about northeast of Ankara. It is situated about 800 m (2500 ft) above sea level. It is the seat of Çankırı Province and of Çankır ... electoral districts. Members Population reviews of each electoral district are conducted before each general election, which can lead to certain districts being granted a smaller or greater number of parliamentary seats. As a small electoral district, Karabük's seat allocation has always been low. It was three when electoral district was created in 1995. During 2011-2017, MP number is reduced to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justice And Development Party (Turkey)
The Justice and Development Party ( , AK PARTİ), abbreviated officially as AK Party in English, is a List of political parties in Turkey, political party in Turkey self-describing as Conservative democracy, conservative-democratic. It has been the ruling party of Turkey since 2002. Third-party sources often refer to the party as National conservatism, national conservative, Social conservatism, social conservative, Right-wing populism, right-wing populist and as espousing neo-Ottomanism. The party is generally regarded as being right-wing politics, right-wing on the political spectrum, although some sources have described it as Far-right politics, far-right since 2011. It is currently the largest party in Grand National Assembly of Turkey, Grand National Assembly with 273 MPs, ahead of the main opposition Social democracy, social democratic Republican People's Party (CHP). Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been chairman of the AK Party since the 3rd Justice and Development Party Extraor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2002 Turkish General Election
General elections were held in Turkey on 3 November 2002 following the collapse of the Democratic Left Party–Nationalist Movement Party– Motherland Party coalition led by Bülent Ecevit. All 550 members of the Grand National Assembly were up for election. The elections were held during an ongoing economic crisis that followed the 2001 financial crash, which resulted in a deep resentment of coalition governments which had governed the country since the 1980 military coup. The Justice and Development Party (AKP) and Republican People's Party (CHP) between them made massive gains, winning 98.36% of the seats between them. As a result, Turkey moved from the multi-party parliament under a coalition government formed after the 1999 elections to a two-party parliament ruled by an AKP government. No other party won any seats and only nine independents were elected to the parliament. The AKP, which had only been formed in August 2001 by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, won the election ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
27th Parliament Of Turkey
The 27th Parliament of the Turkish Republic was elected in a snap general election held on 24 June 2018 to the Grand National Assembly. It succeeded the 26th Parliament of Turkey in July 2018 and was due to last until the latter half of 2022. The 600 members, elected through proportional representation from 87 electoral districts of Turkey, are shown in the table below. Current structure Some deputies entered the election from the list of other parties with which their party formed electoral alliances. Democratic Party president Gültekin Uysal was in the list of İyi Parti for Afyonkarahisar, Great Unity Party president Mustafa Destici in Justice and Development Party's for Ankara (I), Nazır Cihangir İslam and Abdulkadir Karaduman of Felicity Party for Republican People's Party in İstanbul (III) and Konya respectively. Following the election, these deputies rejoined their original parties. Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, Süleyman Soylu, Abdülhamit Gül and Berat A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 Turkish General Election
General elections were held in Turkey on 24 June 2018. Presidential elections were held to elect the President of Turkey using a two-round system. Parliamentary elections took place to elect 600 Members of Parliament to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. The elections had originally been scheduled for 3 November 2019, until the Erdoğan government called for early elections on 18 April 2018. Background 2017 constitutional referendum The ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) and Erdoğan had long supported a policy of turning Turkey into an executive presidency, replacing the existing parliamentary system of government. With the support of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), the government was able to enact a referendum in Parliament, with the vote being set for 16 April 2017. The proposed constitutional changes would see parliamentary and presidential elections taking place on the same day every five years, with the initial vote being set for 3 November ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burhanettin Uysal
Burhanettin Uysal (20 June 1967 – 3 May 2021) was a Turkish politician and academic. Biography Uysal attended Gazi University and subsequently graduated from the Turkish National Police Academy in 1992. He then earned both a master's degree and a doctorate from Gazi University. He served as a lecturer at Van Yüzüncü Yıl University from 1994 to 1997 and was an assistant professor at Zonguldak Bülent Ecevit University from 1997 to 2000. That year, he became an associate professor, and he became a full professor in 2006. In 2008, Uysal was appointed to be Rector of Karabük University by Turkey Abdullah Gül. However, he resigned on 10 February 2015 to run for the Grand National Assembly of Turkey as a member of the Justice and Development Party. He was elected on 1 November 2015 to serve in the 26th Parliament of Turkey, representing Karabük. Burhanettin Uysal was diagnosed with COVID-19 on 2 April 2021. He died at Ankara Bilkent City Hospital Ankara Bilkent City Hospital ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
26th Parliament Of Turkey
The 26th Parliament of the Turkish Republic was elected in a snap general election held on 1 November 2015 to the Grand National Assembly. It succeeded the short-lived 25th Parliament of Turkey later in November and lasted until July 2018. The 550 members, elected through proportional representation from 85 electoral districts of Turkey Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armen ..., are shown in the table below. Members References {{Members of the 26th Turkish Parliament * 2015 in Turkish politics Terms of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey Political history of Turkey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
November 2015 Turkish General Election
General elections were held in Turkey on 1 November 2015 to elect 550 members to the Grand National Assembly. They were the 25th general elections in the History of the Republic of Turkey and elected the country's 26th Parliament. The election resulted in the Justice and Development Party (AKP) regaining a parliamentary majority following a 'shock' victory, having lost it five months earlier in the June 2015 general elections. The snap elections were called by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on 24 August 2015 after the June election resulted in a hung parliament and coalition negotiations broke down. Although the election, dubbed as a 're-run' of the inconclusive June election by President Erdoğan, was the 7th early election in the history of Turkish politics, it was the first to be overseen by an interim election government. The election rendered the 25th Parliament of Turkey, elected in June, the shortest in the Grand National Assembly's history, lasting for just five m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
25th Parliament Of Turkey
This is a list of members of Parliament (MPs) elected to the Grand National Assembly for the 25th Parliament of the Republic of Turkey at the June 2015 general election, which was held on 7 June 2015. Electoral districts are ordered in alphabetical order, and parties within the electoral districts are ordered according their ranking within that district. Within the parties, MPs are ordered according to their orders in the party lists An electoral list is a grouping of candidates for election, usually found in proportional or mixed electoral systems, but also in some plurality electoral systems. An electoral list can be registered by a political party (a party list) or can c .... The list shows the parties from which they were elected, not subsequent changes. It also does not show the vacated seats. Adana Adıyaman Afyonkarahisar Ağrı Aksaray Amasya Ankara 1st electoral district 2nd electoral district Antalya ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
June 2015 Turkish General Election
General elections were held in Turkey on 7 June 2015 to elect Member of Parliament#Turkey, 550 members to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, Grand National Assembly. This was the 24th general election in the History of the Republic of Turkey, history of the Turkish Republic, electing the country's 25th Parliament of Turkey, 25th Parliament. The result was the first hung parliament since the 1999 Turkish general election, 1999 general elections. Unsuccessful attempts to form a coalition government resulted in a November 2015 Turkish general election, snap general election being called for November 2015. The Justice and Development Party (Turkey), Justice and Development Party (AKP), which had governed Turkey since 2002, lost its parliamentary majority and won 258 seats with 40.9% of the vote, clearly missing the aimed two-thirds majority for the implementation of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's call for an Presidential system, executive presidency. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mehmet Ali Şahin
Mehmet Ali Şahin (born 16 September 1950) is a Turkish politician. He was the Speaker of the Parliament of Turkey from 2009 to 2011. He was a member of the parliament for three terms from Istanbul Province and from Antalya Province of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party). He served as Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Justice, and as Minister of State responsible for sports. Şahin is a lawyer and a graduate of Istanbul University faculty of law. Before entering parliament, he was involved in regional politics, serving as the mayor of Fatih district in Istanbul, with the Welfare Party, and later with Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's Justice and Development Party. On 5 August 2009, he was elected in a third round of voting as the 24th (27th, from the establishment) Speaker of the Turkish Grand National Assembly, succeeding his party colleague Köksal Toptan. He was supportive of a solution to the Kurdish Turkish conflict, and dismissed the concerns of Turkish nat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
24th Parliament Of Turkey
This is a list of members of Parliament (MPs) elected to the Grand National Assembly for the 24th Parliament of the Republic of Turkey at the 2011 general election. Electoral districts are ordered according to plate codes of respective provinces, and parties within the electoral districts are ordered according to their ''nationwide'' vote ( AKP, CHP, MHP, independents). Within the parties, MPs are ordered according to their orders in the party lists. The list shows the parties from which they were elected, not subsequent changes. It also does not show the vacated seats. 15 seats have been vacated as of 8 February 2015 (4 deaths, 10 elected mayors, 1 elected president Adana Adıyaman Afyonkarahisar Ağrı Amasya Ankara Region 1 Region 2 Antalya Artvin Aydın Balıkesir Bilecik Bingöl Bitlis Bolu Burdur Bursa Çanakkale Çankırı Çorum Denizli Diyarbakır Edirne Elazığ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2011 Turkish General Election
General elections were held in Turkey on 12 June 2011 to elect the 550 members of Grand National Assembly of Turkey, Grand National Assembly. In accordance to the result of the 2007 Turkish constitutional referendum, constitutional referendum held in 2007, the elections were held four years after the 2007 Turkish general election, previous elections in 2007 instead of five. The result was a third consecutive victory for the incumbent Justice and Development Party (Turkey), Justice and Development Party (AKP), with its leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan being re-elected as Prime Minister of Turkey, Prime Minister for a third term with 49.8% of the vote and 327 MPs. This represented an increase of 3.2% since the 2007 Turkish general election and an 11.4% rise since the 2009 Turkish local elections. The victory was attributed to the strong sustained economic recovery after the Great Recession as well as the completion of several projects such as the İZBAN, İzmir commuter railway, High-sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
