23rd Parliament of Turkey

This is a list of the 550 Members of Parliament elected in the 2007 general election held in Turkey. The MPs are listed by province, in alphabetical order. Turkey uses a D'Hondt proportional representative system to elect Members of Parliament. These MPs formed the 23rd Parliament of Turkey. An overview of the parliamentary composition is shown in the table below.

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Party		Members	Change	Proportion
	Justice and Development Party	341	12	62.0%
	Republican People's Party	112*	56	20.4%
	Nationalist Movement Party	71	71	12.9%
	Democratic Society Party	23^	23	4.2%
	Other independents	3	3	0.5%
Total		550		100%
* 13 of the 112 MPs elected under the CHP banner were members of the Democratic Left Party ^ Democratic Society Party MPs were elected by standing as independents in order to bypass the 10% parliamentary threshold

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Speaker(s)Köksal Toptan
Mehmet Ali Şahin

Deputy SpeakersSadık Yakut
Eyyüp Cenap Gülpınar
Nevzat Pakdil
Güldal Mumcu
Meral Akşener

MPs550

ElectionJuly 2007

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23rd Parliament of Turkey
10 August 2007 – 12 June 2011
Speaker(s)	Köksal Toptan Mehmet Ali Şahin
Deputy Speakers	Sadık Yakut Eyyüp Cenap Gülpınar Nevzat Pakdil Güldal Mumcu Meral Akşener
MPs	550
Election	July 2007
Status	AKP majority
Parties (at start) (Composition shown above)	AKP (341)   CHP (112)   MHP (71)   BUA (23)   Independents (3)
Parties (at end)	AKP (331)   CHP (102)   MHP (72)   Independents (20)   BDP (8)   DSP (6)   TP (1)   Vacant (10)
Prime Ministers	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Government(s)	60th
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