Ümit Özdağ
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Ümit Özdağ MP |
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| Deputy Leader of the Nationalist Movement Party | |
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In office 14 November 2015 – 24 February 2016 |
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| Leader | Devlet Bahçeli |
| Preceded by | Yıldırım Tuğrul Türkeş |
| Succeeded by | Mehmet Günal |
| Member of the Grand National Assembly | |
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Assumed office 7 June 2015 |
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| Constituency | Gaziantep (Jun 2015, Nov 2015) |
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| Born | 3 March 1961 Tokyo, Japan |
| Nationality | Turkish |
| Political party |
Independent (2016–present) Nationalist Movement Party (former) |
| Education | Political science |
| Alma mater |
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Gazi University |
| Occupation | Academic, politician |
| Website | www.umitozdag.com |
Ümit Özdağ (born 3 March 1961) is a Turkish politician who served as the Deputy Leader of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) from November 2015 to February 2016. He announced his candidacy for the party leadership for the 8th MHP Ordinary Congress in 2006, but had his membership revoked two days later. After returning to the party following a successful lawsuit, he again announced his candidacy for the MHP leadership in April 2016 for the 2016 Nationalist Movement Party Extraordinary Congress, which was eventually called off after numerous legal disputes. He had his party membership revoked by the MHP High Disciplinary Board on 15 November 2016 and currently sits as an Independent Member of Parliament for Gaziantep.
Ümit Özdağ was born on 3 March 1961 in Tokyo, Japan, where his father Muzaffer Özdağ served as a Turkish government advisor. His mother, Gönül Özdağ, would go on to serve as the first MHP Womens' Wing President. His father was a close ally of MHP founder Alparslan Türkeş and served as a member of the National Unity Committee that was installed following the 1960 Turkish coup d'état.
Özdağ studied philosophy, politics and economics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, before completing a master's degree on Turkish strategic development and state planning institutions. He married Dr. Burçin Özdağ and has one child.
In 1986, Özdağ joined the Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences at Gazi University as a research fellow. In 1990, he completed a doctorate on military-political affairs in the Atatürk ve İnönü period. In 1993, he became a docent in political theory following his work on the 1960 military coup and political-military relations in the Adnan Menderes era. In 1994, Özdağ became the editor of a international relations and strategic research magazine named Avrasya Dosyası (Eurasia Files). Following research into terrorism and ethnic divisions in the late 1980s, he conducted sociopolitical ground research in the east and southeastern Anatolia regions of Turkey in 1995.
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