Sadık Yakut (born 3 February 1956) is a former

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politician from the

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(AKP) who served as the

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from 2002 to 2007 and again from 2009 to 2015. He was a Member of Parliament for

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between 1999 and 2015, first entering

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as a

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(MHP) politician and then defecting to the AKP to become one of the party's founding members in 2001.

Early life and career

Sadık Yakut was born on 3 February 1956 in the Büyükkaramanlı village of

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. He graduated from

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Faculty of Law and served as a

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in the districts of

Halfeti Halfeti () is a municipality and district of Şanlıurfa Province, Turkey. Its area is 609 km2, and its population is 41,662 (2022). It is near the east bank of the river Euphrates, from the city of Şanlıurfa. Most of the villages were sub ...

Çamardı Çamardı is a town in Niğde Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey, at the foot of Aladağ in the Taurus Mountains. It is the seat of Çamardı District.Savaştepe Savaştepe is a municipality and district of Balıkesir Province, Turkey. Its area is 427 km2, and its population is 16,765 (2022). Its elevation is . The mayor is Turhan Şimşek ( AKP). Composition There are 50 neighbourhoods in Savaştepe ...

and later in the provinces of

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. He was a research judge and later a head of department and the

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Department of Prisons and Detention Houses.

Political career

Yakut entered Parliament as a member of the

(MHP) in the 1999 general election as an MP for

. In 2001, he left the MHP to join the bloc of 'modernist'

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former

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MPs and eventually became a founding member of the

(AKP). Yakut became the

after the AKP's victory in the 2002 general election, during which he was re-elected as an MP for Kayseri. He served until 2007 and was re-elected as an MP in the 2007 general election, returning to his role as Deputy Speaker in 2009. He was re-elected as an MP for a final time in the 2011 general election, continuing as Deputy Speaker until 2015, in which he was barred from running for election due to the AKP's three-term limit on its MPs.

References

External links

MP profile at the Parliament websiteCollection of all relevant news items at Haberler.com
{{DEFAULTSORT:Yakut, Sadik Justice and Development Party (Turkey) politicians Nationalist Movement Party politicians Deputy speakers of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey 1956 births Deputies of Kayseri Members of the 24th Parliament of Turkey Members of the 23rd Parliament of Turkey Members of the 22nd Parliament of Turkey People from Pınarbaşı, Kayseri Members of the 21st Parliament of Turkey Living people Istanbul University Faculty of Law alumni

Early life and career

Political career

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