Background
İsmail Kahraman was born in Rize in 1940 and graduated from İstanbul University Faculty of Law.
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During his youth, he was the President of the Student"s Community and of the National Turkish Student"s Union. In the private sector, he worked as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of numerous companies and became the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Labour. Minister of Culture The Welfare Party leader Necmettin Erbakan formed a coalition government with the True Path Party in June 1996, with Kahraman becoming the Minister of Culture.
The government fell in June 1997 after the military memorandum on 28 February.
He was re-elected as an Member of Parliament in the 1999 general election as part of the RP"s successor Virtue Party (FP), but lost his seat in the 2002 general election. Speaker of the Grand National Assembly He was subsequently announced as the AKP"s candidate for Speaker of the Grand National Assembly in the November 2015 Parliamentary Speaker election.
He was elected speaker in the third round, winning 316 votes and becoming the 27th Speaker of the Grand National Assembly.
Politics
On 13 February 2015, Kahraman attended a career"s day at a girls" school in Rize. In his speech, he argued that students should avoid turning to fashion and instead be faithful and devout. He argued that students should follow the example of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan"s mother, Taziye Erdoğan.
Membership
He has been the Member of Parliament for İstanbul"s first electoral district since 1 November 2015, having previously served as an Member of Parliament for İstanbul between 1995 and 2002. He previously served as the Minister of Culture between 1996 and 1997 in the government of Necmettin Erbakan as a member of the Islamist Welfare Party. He was one of the founding members of the Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University development foundation and is still the Chairman of the Board of Trustees.
Kahraman re-entered politics and was elected as a Member of Parliament for İstanbul"s first electoral district from the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in the November 2015 general election.
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