Meral Akşener

Meral Akşener, known as Meral Gürer before marriage, was born on July 18, 1956, in the Gündoğdu neighborhood of İzmit district of Kocaeli. His father is Tahir Ömer, his mother is Sıddıka; His family comes from an immigrant community of Alevi Turkmen origin who migrated to the Balkans from Diyarbakır's Küçükkadı village.

After receiving her primary teacher education from Bursa Girls' Teacher High School, she graduated from Istanbul University, Faculty of Letters, Department of History in 1979. Then, he completed his master's degree in modern history at Marmara University Social Sciences Institute and his doctorate in Turkish history at the Turkic Studies Institute of the same university and received the title of doctor of history.

After continuing her teaching career between 1979 and 1982, Akşener started her academic journey as a research assistant at Yıldız Technical University Kocaeli Faculty of Engineering in 1982. Later, he served as the head of the history of revolution department at Kocaeli University and was one of the founders of the Zübeyde Hanım Martyrs' Families Foundation.

He took his first step into politics and was appointed as a True Path Party (DYP) candidate in the 1994 local elections. In 1995, she was promoted to the Chairman of the DYP Women's Branch, and she entered the parliament as a member of parliament in the same year and in 1999. Akşener, who was appointed as the Minister of Internal Affairs after the Susurluk accident in the coalition government led by Necmettin Erbakan between 1996 and 1997, became the first female Minister of Internal Affairs in the history of Türkiye.

During this period, he also served in the National Defense and Internal Affairs Commissions. He left DYP in 2001 and joined MHP in the same year. He was elected as a member of the Central Executive Board at the 8th Ordinary Grand Congress of MHP in 2006, and took part in the Turkish Grand National Assembly as a party deputy in the 2007, 2011 and 2015 elections.

He left MHP in 2017 and founded the İYİ Party and served as the first chairman of the party. He competed as the presidential candidate of the İYİ Party in the 2018 presidential election.

Productions in which he took part

• Topics (2017)
• 17 August 1999 Earthquake from İHA's Archive (2022) — Former Deputy Prime Minister

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