Celal Adan

Celal Adan
MP
Member of the Grand National Assembly
Assumed office
12 June 2011
Constituency İstanbul (II) (2011, June 2015)
In office
18 April 1999  3 November 2002
Constituency İstanbul (II) (1999)
Personal details
Born (1951-09-10) September 10, 1951
Ağrı, Turkey
Political party True Path Party 1999-2002
Democratic Party 2007-2011
Nationalist Movement Party 2011-present
Alma mater İstanbul University
Occupation Politician

Celal Adan (born 10 September 1951 in Ağrı) is a Turkish politician. He was elected in 2011 to the 24th Grand National Assembly of Turkey for the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP).[1][2] Adan had previously represented the True Path Party (DYP) in the 21st Assembly (1999 - 2002),[3] and later been the party's deputy chairman (renamed Democratic Party in 2007).[4]

In the 1980s and 1990s Adan had a close relationship with Mehmet Ağar; in the early 1980s he was tried and acquitted of being involved in the 1980 murder of trade unionist Kemal Türkler.[5]

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