Recai Kutan

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Mehmet Recai Kutan in July 2009.

Mehmet Recai Kutan (b. 1930, Malatya) is a Turkish politician and the former leader of Felicity Party (SP).

Biography

Kutan graduated from Istanbul Technical University, Department of Civil Engineering in 1952. Until 1973, he worked as an engineer in various projects including the Southeastern Anatolia Project (GAP). His political career started 1973 in National Salvation Party and after 1983 he served in Welfare Party. He was Minister of Energy in 1996 in a coalition led by Welfare Party.

At the 3rd party congress held on October 26, 2008 in Ankara, he did not run for his re-election as the leader of the Felicity Party, and was succeeded by Numan Kurtulmuş.^[1]

Footnotes

↑ "Saadet Partisi Genel Başkanlığına, Numan Kurtulmuş seçildi". Nethaber. 2008-10-26. Retrieved 2008-10-28. (Turkish)

References

Biography (Turkish)

Political offices
Preceded by Erol Tuncer	Minister of Public Works and Housing of Turkey 1977–1978	Succeeded by Ahmet Karaaslan
Preceded by Hüsnü Doğan	Minister of Energy and Natural Resources of Turkey 1996–1997	Succeeded by Cumhur Ersümer
Party political offices
Preceded by İsmail Alptekin	Leader of the Virtue Party (FP) 1998–2001	Succeeded by banned
Preceded by newly founded	Leader of the Felicity Party (SP) Jul 20, 2001–May 11, 2003	Succeeded by Necmettin Erbakan
Preceded by Necmettin Erbakan	Leader of the Felicity Party (SP) Apr 9, 2006–Oct 26, 2008	Succeeded by Numan Kurtulmuş

v t e Leaders of the Felicity Party

Mehmet Recai Kutan Necmettin Erbakan Mehmet Recai Kutan Numan Kurtulmuş Necmettin Erbakan Mustafa Kamalak

v t e Party leaders in Turkey

Before 1960	Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Kâzım Karabekir Fethi Okyar İsmet İnönü Nuri Demirağ Celâl Bayar Hikmet Bayur Adnan Menderes Osman Bölükbaşı Ekrem Hayri Üstündağ Fevzi Lütfi Karaosmanoğlu

1960-1980	Ekrem Alican Ragıp Gümüşpala Ahmet Oğuz Mehmet Ali Aybar Süleyman Demirel Alparslan Türkeş Turhan Feyzioğlu Hüseyin Balan Mustafa Timisi Ferruh Bozbeyli Behice Boran Necmettin Erbakan Bülent Ecevit Kemal Satır

1980-present	Turgut Sunalp Turgut Özal Necdet Calp Erdal İnönü Ahmet Nusret Tuna Cezmi Kartay Yıldırım Avcı Ahmet Tekdal Hüsamettin Cindoruk Aydın Güven Gürkan Ülkü Söylemezoğlu Rahşan Ecevit Mehmet Yazar Necdet Karababa Yıldırım Akbulut Mesut Yılmaz Doğu Perinçek Tansu Çiller Murat Karayalçın Deniz Baykal Hikmet Çetin Devlet Bahçeli Recai Kutan Altan Öymen Ahmet Türk Recep Tayyip Erdoğan İsmail Cem İpekçi Zeki Sezer Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu

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Persondata
Name	Kutan, Recai
Alternative names
Short description	Turkish politician
Date of birth	1930
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death

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