Dursun Müsavat Dervişoğlu (born February 1, 1960) is a Turkish businessman, politician and the

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of the

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Biography

Dervişoğlu was born in

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to a family from

Fatsa Fatsa is a municipality and district of Ordu Province, Turkey. Its area is 363 km2, and its population is 126,775 (2022). It lies on the Black Sea coast. Name The oldest recorded name of the town is Polemonion (, Latinized as Polemonium), af ...

, where he later moved to and studied primary and secondary school in. He completed his high school education in Fatsa, Ankara, and

Samsun Samsun is a List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, city on the north coast of Turkey and a major Black Sea port. The urban area recorded a population of 738,692 in 2022. The city is the capital of Samsun Province which has a population of ...

. 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

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. Later, he completed his undergraduate education at

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, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Business Administration, where relied on

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. He started his career in the

Nationalist Task Party Nationalist Task Party or Nationalist Labour Party () 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 the Nationalist Movement Party after 1980 Turkish ...

(MÇP). He was the Fatsa District president of the Nationalist Youth Association (ÜGD) in 1978, and the Fatsa chairman of the

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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 ran the Grey Wolves training camps from ...

himself. Then, he was sent to Izmir by Türkeş to serve in the MÇP İzmir Provincial Organization. He later joined the

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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

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 (5 September 1943 – 13 January 2024) was a Turkish intelligence official. In 1995–1996 he led the counter-terrorism department of the National Intelligence Organization (MIT), which he joined as a student in 1965 as a "pursuit of ...

, claimed that Müsavat Dervişoğlu was the right-hand man of Eymür in his statement at the parliament. Dervişoğlu denied the allegations of

Doğu Perinçek Doğu Perinçek (; born 17 June 1942) is a Turkish politician, doctor of law and former communist revolutionary who has been chairman of the left-wing nationalist Patriotic Party since 2015. He was also a member of the Talat Pasha Committee, an ...

who had claimed that Dervişoğlu had tried to assassinate him in the past as part of a job with the MİT.

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

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. He has a sibling named 'Hürriyet' (meaning liberty) and another named 'Adalet' (meaning justice). These words collectively make up the

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and their political party

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

References

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