İsmail Kahraman

İsmail Kahraman
İsmail Kahraman
27th Speaker of the Grand National Assembly
	In office; 22 November 2015 – 7 July 2018
President	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Deputy	Ahmet Aydın; Ayşe Nur Bahçekapılı; Akif Hamzaçebi (2015-17); Yaşar Tüzün (2017-18); Pervin Buldan (2015-18); Mithat Sancar (2018)
Preceded by	İsmet Yılmaz
Succeeded by	Binali Yıldırım
Minister of Culture
	In office; 28 June 1996 – 30 June 1997
Prime Minister	Necmettin Erbakan
Preceded by	Agah Oktay Güner
Succeeded by	İstemihan Talay
Member of the Grand National Assembly
	In office; 1 November 2015 – 7 July 2018
Constituency	İstanbul (I) (Nov 2015)
	In office; 24 December 1995 – 3 November 2002
Constituency	İstanbul (1995, 1999)
Personal details
Born	1940 (age 84–85); Rize, Turkey
Nationality	Turkish
Political party	Welfare Party (1995-97); Virtue Party (1997-02); Justice and Development Party (2002-present)
Children	4
Education	Law
Alma mater	Istanbul University

İsmail Kahraman (born 1940) is a Turkish politician. He is a member of the Justice and Development Party (AKP). He was the 27th Speaker of the Grand National Assembly from 22 November 2015 to 7 July 2018. He has been the Member of Parliament for İstanbul's first electoral district since 1 November 2015.^[1]

References

↑ YACKLEY, AYLA JEAN; GURSES, ERCAN (26 April 2016). "Turkish parliament speaker provokes row with call for religious constitution". Reuters. Retrieved 3 August 2016.