Murat Karayalçın

Murat Karayalçın


31st Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office 12 December 1994^[1] – 27 March 1995^[1]
Prime Minister	Tansu Çiller
Preceded by	Mümtaz Soysal
Succeeded by	Erdal Inönü
Deputy Prime Minister
In office 19 September 1993^[1] – 27 March 1995
Prime Minister	Tansu Çiller
Preceded by	Erdal İnönü
Succeeded by	Hikmet Çetin
Personal details
Born	1943 Samsun, Turkey
Nationality	Turkey
Political party	Social Democratic Populist Party, Social Democratic People's Party
Alma mater	Ankara University University of East Anglia
Profession	politician

Murat Karayalçın (born 1943 in Samsun, Turkey) is a prominent Turkish politician. He is a former foreign minister (1994–1995), deputy prime minister, and a former mayor of Ankara (1989–1993). He is the founder (in 2002) of the new Social Democratic People's Party.

Karayalçın was educated at Ankara University and at the University of East Anglia where he graduated with a master's degree in Development Economics in 1977. He was elected leader of the Social Democratic Populist Party (SHP) on 11 September 1993, succeeding Erdal İnönü and served as the deputy prime minister briefly in the 50th government of Turkey.^[1] The party merged with the Republican People's Party (CHP) in 1995.

He was nominated by the Republican People's Party (CHP) as candidate for mayor of Ankara in the 2009 local elections, in which he gained 31.50% of all votes.

References

Political offices
Preceded by Mehmet Altınsoy	Mayor of Ankara March 26, 1989–September 19, 1993	Succeeded by Vedat Aydın
Preceded by Erdal İnönü	Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey September 19, 1993–March 27, 1995	Succeeded by Hikmet Çetin
Preceded by Mümtaz Soysal	Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey December 12, 1994–March 27, 1995	Succeeded by Erdal İnönü
Party political offices
Preceded by Erdal İnönü	Leader of the Social Democratic People's Party (SHP) September 12, 1993–February 18, 1995	Succeeded by merged with the Republican People's Party (CHP)
Preceded by founded	Leader of the new Social Democratic People Party (SHP) May 24, 2002– November 4 2008	Succeeded by Hüseyin Ergün

Mayors of Ankara

Province Governors (1924–1960)	Mehmet Ali Bey Ali Haydar Bey Asaf Bey Tandoğan Adal Çağpar Tüzün Börekçi Benderlioğlu Aygün Göktan Eren Aygün Argun

Military-appointed (1960–1963)	Baştuğ Orgun Teoman Kuray

Elected (1963–1980)	Erkut Barlas Dalokay Dinçer

Military-appointed (1980–1984)	Önder

Greater Ankara (1984 to date)	Altınsoy Karayalçın Aydın Gökçek

Party leaders in Turkey

Before 1960	Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Kâzım Karabekir Fethi Okyar İsmet İnönü Nuri Demirağ Celâl Bayar Hikmet Bayur Adnan Menderes Osman Bölükbaşı Ekrem Hayri Üstündağ Fevzi Lütfi Karaosmanoğlu

1960–80	Ekrem Alican Ragıp Gümüşpala Ahmet Oğuz Mehmet Ali Aybar Süleyman Demirel Alparslan Türkeş Turhan Feyzioğlu Hüseyin Balan Mustafa Timisi Ferruh Bozbeyli Behice Boran Necmettin Erbakan Bülent Ecevit Kemal Satır

1980–present	Turgut Sunalp Turgut Özal Necdet Calp Erdal İnönü Ahmet Nusret Tuna Cezmi Kartay Yıldırım Avcı Ahmet Tekdal Hüsamettin Cindoruk Aydın Güven Gürkan Ülkü Söylemezoğlu Rahşan Ecevit Mehmet Yazar Necdet Karababa Yıldırım Akbulut Mesut Yılmaz Doğu Perinçek Tansu Çiller Murat Karayalçın Deniz Baykal Hikmet Çetin Devlet Bahçeli Recai Kutan Altan Öymen Ahmet Türk Recep Tayyip Erdoğan İsmail Cem İpekçi Zeki Sezer Yaşar Nuri Öztürk Masum Türker Süleyman Soylu Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu Ahmet Davutoğlu Binali Yıldırım Selahattin Demirtaş

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