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There are 600 members of parliament (deputies) who are elected for a five-year term by the D'Hondt method, a party-list proportional representation system, from 87 electoral districts which represent the 81 administrative provinces of Turkey (Istanbul and Ankara are divided into three electoral districts whereas İzmir and Bursa are divided into two each because of its large populations).
Meral Akşener - vice speaker of parliament, leader of İyi Party; Yıldırım Akbulut - prime minister; İsmail Rüştü Aksal - CHP secretary general; Ekrem Alican- YTP leader; Oya Araslı- politician (CHP) Hamdi Apaydın - First term MP; Saffet Arıkan - Government minister; Mustafa Kemal Atatürk - Founder and first President of the Turkish ...
Parliament of Turkey. Legislative power is vested in a single-chamber parliament (the Grand National Assembly of Turkey) with 600 members. The members are elected for a period of five years according to the D'Hondt method. Every citizen over the age of eighteen is eligible to be a deputy.
The 28th Parliament of Turkey was elected at the 2023 Turkish parliamentary election. [1] It succeeded the 27th Parliament of Turkey in May 2023. The 600 members , elected through proportional representation from 87 electoral districts of Turkey , are shown below.
The members are elected for a five-year term by mitigated proportional representation with an election threshold of 7%. To be represented in Parliament, a party must win at least 7% of the national vote in a national parliamentary election. Independent candidates may run, and to be elected, they must only win enough to get one seat.
The following is a list of cabinets of Turkey since 1920. Numbered I to V are leaders predating the declaration of the Republic of Turkey on October 29, 1923. The list includes the one-party period of the Republic of Turkey (1925–1945) and the subsequent multi-party period of the Republic of Turkey (1945–present).
Below is the list of party leaders (former and present) in Turkey. Only the leaders of parties which were present in the parliament or received a considerable percentage of votes are shown. Only the leaders of parties which were present in the parliament or received a considerable percentage of votes are shown.
The president of Turkey is referred to as Cumhurbaşkanı ("Republic leader"), and previously archaically as Cumhurreisi or Reis-i Cumhur, also meaning "head of the republic/people". [8] [9] Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is the 12th and current president of Turkey, who has held the office since 28 August 2014.