Sena Nur Çelik (born 5 August 1986,

Alanya Alanya (; ), formerly Alaiye, is a beach resort town, resort city, a municipality and Districts of Turkey, district of Antalya Province, Turkey. It is on the southern coast of Turkey, in the country's Mediterranean Region, Turkey, Mediterranean R ...

) is a Turkish politician and member of the

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for the

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Biography

She was born in 1986 in

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. In 2004, after graduating from Üsküdar American High School, she went to England to study law. She graduated from

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Faculty of Law. While he was a student at Warwick University, he became the International Student Representative. She completed the equivalency program of

Istanbul University Istanbul University, also known as University of Istanbul (), is a Public university, public research university located in Istanbul, Turkey. Founded by Mehmed II on May 30, 1453, a day after Fall of Constantinople, the conquest of Constantinop ...

Faculty of Law and completed his master's degree in International Trade Law at the

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. She served as a Board Member of the Turkish Student Group at the London School of Economics."TBMM Biyografisi"
. ''tbmm.gov.tr''. Erişim tarihi: 28 Ağustos 2016. Since 2011, he worked in an

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firm. She provided legal and consultancy services on major infrastructure projects, mergers and acquisitions, strategic partnership and restructuring projects. She was elected as

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Antalya deputy in June 2015, November 2015 and 2018 general elections. She served as the spokesperson of the Foreign Affairs Commission in the

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(TBMM). In the 2023 general elections, she ran as a candidate from Istanbul and entered the 28th term of the Turkish Grand National Assembly as an AK Party Istanbul MP.

References

Living people 1986 births People from Alanya 21st-century Turkish women politicians Alumni of the London School of Economics Alumni of the University of Warwick Istanbul University alumni Justice and Development Party (Turkey) politicians Turkish women MPs Members of the 25th Parliament of Turkey Members of the 26th Parliament of Turkey Members of the 27th Parliament of Turkey Members of the 28th Parliament of Turkey Deputies of Istanbul {{Turkey-politician-stub