Prime Minister Tansu Ciller Prime Minister Tansu Ciller Nationality Turkey Role Turkish Politician | Preceded by Mumtaz Soysal Preceded by Erdal Inonu Name Murat Karayalcin Succeeded by Erdal Inonu | |
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Political party Social Democratic Populist Party, Social Democratic People\'s Party Similar People Erdal Inonu, Deniz Baykal, Fikri Saglar, Yurdusev Ozsokmenler, Selahattin Colak | ||
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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. 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.
In 2002 he founded the new Social Democratic People's Party.
