Fatih Erbakan

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Muhammed Ali Fatih Erbakan (born January 1, 1979) is a Turkish politician and electrical engineer who has led the Islamist New Welfare Party (YRP) since founding it in 2018. He is a son of former Prime Minister of Turkey, Necmettin Erbakan and has been a member of the Grand National Assembly for Istanbul's 2nd election district sine 2023. Erbakan was active in the youth organisations of the Virtue and Felicity parties and unsuccessfully contested the Felicity party leadership in 2014 before founding the YRP, which he presents as the continuation of his father's Milli Görüş movement. the YRP contested the 2023 general election on its own lists within the people's alliance, winning five seats. In the 2024 local election it ran against the AKP, finishing third nationally with 6.19% and winning the Şanlıurfa metropolitan municipality and Yozgat. He said he will be the party's candidate in the next presidential election. His public profile has been designed by his opposition to the to the Istanbul...

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