Yıldırım Tuğrul Turkeş

Tuğrul türkeş (* 1. December 1954 in Istanbul ) is a Turkish politician and since 2015 Parliament deputy of the AKP . He is the founder and former chairman of the Enlightened Turkey Party ( Aydınlık Türkiye Partisi , ATP), with which he split off from the far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP).

biography

Yıldırım was born in Istanbul as the son of the founder and former chairman of the MHP Alparslan Türkeş and Muzaffer Şükriye Türkeş. He studied at the Faculty of Economics and Administration at Hacettepe University in Ankara . After graduating, he worked as a press advisor for the Ministry of Industry and Commerce of the Republic of Turkey. Then he was chairman of the board of the Turkish daily Ortadoğu . He was also a columnist for the daily newspapers Akşam and Son Havadis and the weekly magazine Yeni Harman .

When his father Alparslan Türkeş died on April 4, 1997, Devlet Bahçeli was elected the new chairman of the MHP at an extraordinary party congress. Tuğrul Türkeş resigned from the MHP and founded the “Party of Enlightened Turkey” on November 27, 1998.

In the 2007 parliamentary elections , he came to an agreement with Devlet Bahçeli and was elected to the Grand National Assembly as an MHP MP for Ankara Province .

After the 2015 election , he was invited by Ahmet Davutoğlu in August 2015 to take up a post in his interim government . Contrary to the party line of the MHP, Türkeş decided to accept the invitation and became Deputy Prime Minister in the transitional cabinet. He was then expelled from the MHP.

In July 2017, the government of the Netherlands declared that Turks were not welcome there. According to the will of the Dutch government, he should not take part in a planned celebration to mark the anniversary of the attempted coup in Turkey in 2016 in Apeldoorn . In view of the “bilateral relationship between the two countries”, a visit from a member of the Turkish government is currently not desired, said The Hague.

In addition to Turkish , he speaks English . He is married and has three children.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} TBMM : Profile of Yıldırım Tuğrul Türkeş , accessed on May 18, 2016. (Turkish)
2. ↑ Turkish government members undesirable in the Netherlands , n-tv , July 7, 2017