Tekin Bingöl (born 1 August 1955) is a Turkish politician who served as the Deputy Leader of the

Republican People's Party The Republican People's Party (RPP; , CHP ) is a Kemalism, Kemalist and Social democracy, social democratic political party in Turkey. It is the oldest List of political parties in Turkey, political party in Turkey, founded by Mustafa Kemal ...

responsible for political organisation from 8 May 2014 to 22 March 2022. He has served as a Member of Parliament for Ankara's second electoral district since 7 June 2015, elected at the June 2015 general election. He previously served as an MP for Ankara's second electoral district between 2007 and 2011.

Early life and career

Tekin Bingöl was born on 1 August 1955 in

Bitlis Bitlis ( or ; ) is a city in southeastern Turkey. It is the seat of Bitlis District and Bitlis Province.Hacettepe University Hacettepe University () is a public research university in Ankara, Turkey. It was established on 8 July 1967. It is ranked first among the Turkish universities by University Ranking by Academic Performance in 2021. The university has two main c ...

Faculty of Medicine. He became a medical doctor, working in small villages in Bitlis and later becoming a private sector medical practitioner. He was also involved in business administration in the public sector before entering politics. He speaks English at a semi-fluent level, is married and has three children.

Political career

Bingöl was elected as a Member of Parliament for Ankara's second electoral district in the 2007 general election from the

. After the election of

Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu (; born 17 December 1948), also referred to by his initials KK, is a Turkish politician who served as the Leader of the Republican People's Party, leader of the Republican People's Party (CHP) from 2010 to 2023. He was Lis ...

as the party's leader during the party's 2010 ordinary convention, Tekin became the Deputy General Secretary of the CHP. He left Parliament at the 2011 general election but continued as a CHP politician, being appointed as the Deputy Leader of the party responsible for political organisation on 8 May 2014. He re-entered Parliament, again as a CHP MP from Ankara's second electoral district at the June 2015 general election, which resulted in a

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Interim election cabinet offer

Tekin Bingöl was one of the five CHP politicians who were offered ministerial positions by Justice and Development Party leader

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in August 2015. Davutoğlu had been tasked by President

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to form an interim election government after coalition negotiations proved unsuccessful and resulted in Erdoğan calling an early election. Since the CHP had 131 MPs during the formation of the interim government, the party was entitled to 5 ministries in the cabinet, though Kılıçdaroğlu announced that the CHP would not take part and give up their five ministries to

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. Bingöl subsequently declined Davutoğlu's offer, as did the four other CHP MPs that had been offered ministerial positions.

References

External links

MP profile on the Grand National Assembly websiteCollection of all relevant news items at Haberler.com
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bingol, Tekin Contemporary Republican People's Party (Turkey) politicians Members of the 25th Parliament of Turkey Members of the 23rd Parliament of Turkey 1955 births People from Bitlis Turkish surgeons Living people Hacettepe University alumni Deputies of Ankara Members of the 26th Parliament of Turkey Members of the 27th Parliament of Turkey Members of the 28th Parliament of Turkey