List of Turkish politicians

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This is a list of notable politicians in the Republic of Turkey.

• Meral Akşener - vice speaker of parliament, leader of İyi Party
• Yıldırım Akbulut - prime minister
• İsmail Rüştü Aksal - CHP secretary general
• Ekrem Alican- YTP leader
• Oya Araslı- politician (CHP)
• Hamdi Apaydın - First term MP
• Saffet Arıkan - Government minister
• Mustafa Kemal Atatürk - Founder and first President of the Turkish Republic
• Mehmet Ali Aybar - leader of TİP

• Ali Babacan – vice prime minister
• Devlet Bahçeli - leader of MHP - vice prime minister
• Cemil Sait Barlas - Government minister
• Faik Ahmet Barutçu - Government minister
• Celal Bayar - president - leader of DP
• Deniz Baykal – leader CHP
• Hikmet Bayur - Government minister
• Behice Boran - leader of TİP
• Ferruh Bozbeyli - Parliament speaker
• Mahmut Esat Bozkurt - Government minister
• Osman Bölükbaşı -leader of MP

• Necdet Calp -leader of HP
• İsmail Cem - leader of YTP, foreign minister

• İhsan Sabri Çağlayangil - senate chairman, acting president
• Fevzi Çakmak – leader of MP
• Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu - foreign minister
• Hikmet Çetin - leader of CHP
• Vasıf Çınar - Government minister
• Hatı Çırpan - first female villager parliament member
• Tansu Çiller - leader of DYP, female prime minister

• Süleyman Demirel - leader of AP, leader of DYP, prime minister, president
• Ali Dinçer - mayor of Ankara, deputy chairman of the assembly

• Bülent Ecevit - leader of DSP, prime minister
• Rahşan Ecevit -leader of DSP
• Necmettin Erbakan, prime minister
• Recep Tayyip Erdoğan - leader of AK Party, prime minister, president
• Nihat Erim - prime minister
• Kenan Evren - president

• Turhan Feyzioğlu- leader of CGP

• Reşit Galip - Minister of National Education
• Mübeccel Göktuna -leader of the first women's party
• Şemsettin Günaltay-prime minister
• Abdullah Gül - prime minister, president
• Kasım Gülek -secretary general of CHP
• Birgül Ayman Güler- vice president of CHP
• Cemal Gürsel- president and prime minister
• Gencay Gürün - MP, dramatist, diplomat
• Kemal Güven - parliament speaker
• Aydın Güven Gürkan - leader of HP, SHP

• Sadi Irmak - prime minister

• Tevfik İleri - Government minister
• Müfide İlhan - first female mayor (Mersin)
• Erdal İnönü – leader of SODEP, SHP, vice prime minister
• İsmet İnönü - leader of CHP, prime minister, president

• Atilla Karaosmanoğlu
• Murat Karayalçın -leader of SHP
• Cahit Karakaş - Parliament speaker
• Cezmi Kartay - leader of SODEP
• Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu - leader of CHP
• Refik Koraltan - chairman of the parliament
• Fahri Korutürk - president
• Sadık Kutlay - minister of settlement

• Ferit Melen - prime minister
• Adnan Menderes - prime minister
• Hüseyin Numan Menemencioğlu -Government minister
• Güldal Mumcu - Parliament vice speaker
• Mustafa Hamarat - AK Party Deputy General Secretary

• Mustafa Necati (Uğural) - Three times government minister
• Fatma Esma Nayman - one of the earliest female MPs

• Ali Fethi Okyar - prime minister
• Rauf Orbay - chairman of the government - opposition leader (in early parliament)

• Huriye Öniz - one of the first female MPs
• Turgut Özal - leader of ANAP; prime minister, president
• Fahrettin Özdilek - vice prime minister
• Altan Öymen - leader of CHP

• Recep Peker - prime minister

• Hasan Saka - prime minister
• Şükrü Saracoğlu- prime minister
• Kemal Satır -secretary general of CHP
• Refik Saydam- prime minister
• Gün Sazak - government minister
• Nur Serter - CHP MP
• Ahmet Necdet Sezer - president
• Zeki Sezer - leader of DSP
• Fuat Sirmen -Parliament speaker
• Cevdet Sunay - president
• Faruk Sükan - Government minister

• Mustafa Şentop - Parliament speaker

• Naim Talu - prime minister
• Ali Rana Tarhan - Government minister
• Emine Ülker Tarhan - group chair women of CHP
• Yusuf Kemal Tengirşenk - Government minister
• Alparslan Türkeş – leader of MHP
• Ahmet Fikri Tüzer - acting prime minister

• Necdet Uğur - Government minister
• Bülent Ulusu - prime minister
• Hilmi Uran - Government minister
• Behçet Uz - Government minister

• Gülkız Ürbül - first female villagehead
• Suat Hayri Ürgüplü - prime minister
• Mustafa Üstündağ - Government minister
• Besim Üstünel -Government minister

• Binali Yıldırım - prime minister
• Dilek Akagün Yılmaz - CHP MP
• Mesut Yılmaz - leader of ANAP, prime minister
• Lebit Yurdoğlu - minister of Settlement

• Lale Akgün - German politician
• Nebahat Albayrak - Dutch politician
• Osman "Oz" Bengür, Maryland Democratic Party Congressional Candidate
• Sevim Dağdelen - German politician
• Ekin Deligöz - German politician
• Rauf Denktaş - Politician, Former President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
• Ahmed Djemal - Politician, Member of the Young Turks
• Ahmed Doğan - Human rights activist and politician, leader of Movement for Rights and Freedoms.
• Fatma Ekenoğlu - Politician
• John Eren, politician brother of Tayfun Eren.
• Tayfun Eren, Politician, He was the first person of Turkish birth to be elected to a Parliament in Australia
• Hakkı Keskin - German politician
• Fazıl Küçük - Politician, Vice President of Cyprus
• Vural Öger - German politician
• Cem Özdemir - German Politician
• Ferdi Sabit Soyer – Politician
• Mehmet Ali Talat - Politician, President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
• Zeki Velidi Togan - Politician, Historian
• Emel Etem Toshkova - Bulgarian politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Bulgaria (current)
• Ziya Gökalp - Politician, Poet
• Fatin Rüştü Zorlu - Politician, Diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey