Bülent Arınç
Bülent Arınç was born in Bursa in 1948. He graduated from the Faculty of Law, Ankara University. For many years he worked as a lawyer in Manisa. He was elected as the Welfare Party’s Member of Parliament (MP) for Manisa in the 1995 general elections, and as the Virtue Party’s MP for Manisa in the 1999 general elections. He served on several parliamentary committees. He was one of the founders of the Justice and Development Part in 2001, and was elected to serve as Group Chairman of the Party in Parliament. Between 2002 and 2007, he served as Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. Following the 2007 general elections, he was elected as Head of the Turkish Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (PABSEC). On 12 June 2011, he was elected as the MP for Bursa Province, and has been serving as Deputy Prime Minister for the 61st Government. Bülent Arınç knows English at an intermediate level, and is married with two children.
