Saadettin Tantan
| Sadettin Tantan | |
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| Leader of the Homeland Party | |
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Assumed office 25 August 2002 |
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| Preceded by | Hakan Önder |
| Minister of the Interior | |
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In office 29 May 1999 – 6 June 2001 |
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| Prime Minister | Bülent Ecevit |
| Preceded by | Rüştü Kazım Yücelen |
| Succeeded by | Cahit Bayar |
| Member of the Grand National Assembly | |
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In office 18 April 1999 – 3 November 2002 |
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| Constituency | İstanbul (II) (1999) |
| Mayor of Fatih | |
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In office 27 March 1994 – 18 April 1999 |
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| Preceded by | Yusuf Günaydın |
| Succeeded by | Eşref Albayrak |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
1 January 1941 Sapanca, Sakarya Province, Turkey |
| Political party |
Motherland Party (1994-2001) Homeland Party (2002-present) |
| Alma mater | Eskişehir Academy of Economic and Commercial Sciences Faculty of Management |
Sadettin Tantan (born: 1 January 1941) is the Turkish politician who is the founder and current leader of the Homeland Party (Turkish: Yurt Partisi, YURT-P) since 2002. He was a former member of the Motherland Party (ANAP) and served as the Minister of the Interior between 1999 and 2001 under the DSP-ANAP-MHP coalition led by Bülent Ecevit.
Born in Sapanca, Sakarya Province on 1 January 1941, Tantan studied at the Police Institute and graduated from the Eskişehir Academy of Economic and Commercial Sciences Faculty of Management. He received his master's degree from Bursa Institute of Business Administration and went to the United Kingdom to improve his foreign language skills.
He began work as a deputy commissioner in the General Directorate of Security, working in the Narcotics and Law Departments of the polices forces in Eskişehir, Bursa and İstanbul. He served as the Head of the Provincial Police Departments in Giresun and Tekirdağ. Between 1980 and 1990, he served as the President of the İstanbul Specialised Wrestling Club. He also served as the President of the Wrestling Federation between December 1991 and December 1993.
Tantan joined the Motherland Party (ANAP) in 1994 and was selected as the party's candidate to become the Mayor of İstanbul's Fatih District for the 1994 local elections. He was elected and served as the district's mayor for five years. In 1999, there was speculation that ANAP could select him as a candidate for the Mayor of the İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality for the 1999 local elections. He was instead selected as a candidate to become a Member of Parliament#Member of Parliament for İstanbul's second electoral district in the 1999 general election.
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