Mehmet Ali Şahin

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Mehmet Ali Şahin
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Personal details
Born (1950-09-16) 16 September 1950 (age 73)
Ovacık, Turkey
Political partyWelfare Party (1987-1998)
Virtue Party (1998-2001)
Justice and Development Party (2001-present)
Alma materIstanbul University

Mehmet Ali Şahin (born 16 September 1950) is a Turkish politician. He was the

Speaker of the Parliament of Turkey from 2009 to 2011.[1]

He was a member of the parliament for three terms from

Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Justice, and as Minister of State responsible for sports.[1]

Şahin is a lawyer and a graduate of Istanbul University faculty of law. Before entering parliament, he was involved in regional politics, serving as the mayor of Fatih district in Istanbul, with the Welfare Party, and later with Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's Justice and Development Party.[1][2]

On 5 August 2009, he was elected in a third round of voting as the 24th (27th, from the establishment) Speaker of the

Kurdish Turkish conflict, and dismissed the concerns of Turkish nationalists which argue that if Kurds receive more rights it would divide the country.[3] In 2016, he also suggested the release of the imprisoned members of Parliament from the Peoples' Democracy Party (HDP) comparing their situation to the one of Mehmet Haberal, a lawmaker of the Republican People's Party (CHP) who was elected while imprisoned.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Mehmet Ali Şahin artık protokolde iki numara". Radikal (in Turkish). 5 August 2009. Retrieved 5 August 2009.
  2. ^ Newspaper Radikal Archived 30 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine (in Turkish)
  3. ^ "Turkey marks 25 years of Kurd rebellion". NBC News. Retrieved 15 October 2022.
  4. ^ "Arrested HDP lawmakers could be released: AKP MP – Türkiye News". Hürriyet Daily News. Retrieved 15 October 2022.

External links

Media related to Mehmet Ali Şahin at Wikimedia Commons

Political offices
Preceded by First Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey
2002–2003
Succeeded by
Preceded by Minister of Justice
2007–2009
Succeeded by
Preceded by
Speaker of the Parliament

2009–2011
Succeeded by