Nevzat Yanmaz

Nevzat Yanmaz is an architect and politician from Sivas. He represented Sivas in the Turkish Grand National Assembly in the second half of the 1990s, and in the following years he took part in the ranks of different parties in the local politics of the city.

He was born in Sivas in 1960. He studied architecture at the engineering faculty of Selçuk University in Konya. After his graduation, he worked as a freelance architect and also dealt with contracting work.

political life

He was elected as Sivas MP from the Homeland Party list in the 1995 general elections and served in the Parliament in the 20th term, from the beginning of 1996 to the spring of 1999. While the term was continuing, he left his party and joined the Great Unity Party; He also served as vice chairman of this party in the following years.

Yanmaz, who later joined the AK Party, became a member of the Sivas Municipal Council from this party. In August 2021, he withdrew his membership by reading a petition during the regular session of the parliament; He cited as justification that the council members were ineffective in the decision-making processes and that the promises made to the voters could not be fulfilled.

In the summer of 2026, he took part in the Sivas program of Victory Party Chairman Ümit Özdağ and joined this party.

In his political history of more than thirty years, Yanmaz has undertaken positions ranging from parliamentarian to local government, and has become one of the well-known names in Sivas politics.