İsmail Kahraman
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İsmail Kahraman MP |
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| 27th Speaker of the Grand National Assembly | |
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Assumed office 22 November 2015 |
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| President | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan |
| Deputy |
Ahmet Aydın Ayşe Nur Bahçekapılı Akif Hamzaçebi Pervin Buldan |
| Preceded by | İsmet Yılmaz |
| Minister of Culture | |
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In office 28 June 1996 – 30 June 1997 |
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| Prime Minister | Necmettin Erbakan |
| Preceded by | Agah Oktay Güner |
| Succeeded by | Mustafa İstemihan Talay |
| Member of the Grand National Assembly | |
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Assumed office 1 November 2015 |
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| Constituency | İstanbul (I) (Nov 2015) |
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In office 24 December 1995 – 3 November 2002 |
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| Constituency | İstanbul (1995, 1999) |
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| Born | 1940 Rize, Turkey |
| Nationality | Turkish |
| Political party |
Welfare Party (1995-97) Virtue Party (1997-02) Justice and Development Party (2002-present) |
| Education | Law |
| Alma mater | Istanbul University |
| Religion | Islam |
İsmail Kahraman (born 1940) is a Turkish politician from the Justice and Development Party (AKP) who currently serves as the 27th Speaker of the Grand National Assembly since 22 November 2015. He has been the Member of Parliament for İstanbul's first electoral district since 1 November 2015, having previously served as an MP for İstanbul between 1995 and 2002. He also served as Minister of Culture from 1996 to 1997 in the government of Necmettin Erbakan as a member of the Islamist Welfare Party.
İsmail Kahraman was born in Rize in 1940 and graduated from İstanbul University Faculty of Law. During his youth, he was the President of the Student's Community and of the National Turkish Student's Union. He was a founding member and a Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Unity Foundation and the Voluntary Foundation of Turkey. In the private sector, he worked as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of numerous companies and became the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Labour. He was one of the founding members of the Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University development foundation and is still the Chairman of the Board of Trustees.
İsmail Kahraman was first elected as a Member of Parliament for İstanbul in the 1995 general election as a member of the Welfare Party. The Welfare Party leader Necmettin Erbakan formed a coalition government with the True Path Party in June 1996, with Kahraman becoming the Minister of Culture. The government fell in June 1997 after the military memorandum on 28 February. He was re-elected as an MP in the 1999 general election as part of the RP's successor Virtue Party (FP), but lost his seat in the 2002 general election.
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