Ali Mahir Başarır

Ali Mahir Başarır was born on 3 September 1975 in Tarsus, Mersin in an Arab Alawi family.^[1][2][3] Başarır graduated from Marmara University Faculty of Law and completed his master's degree in Public Law at the same university.^[1] After graduating from university, he started his business life as a freelance lawyer in Istanbul.^[4] Later, he worked as a manager in Maltepe Sports Club and Kartal Sports Club.^[4]

After the 1980 Turkish coup d'état, the Republican People's Party was shut down and upon its reopening in 1992, he took part in the Tarsus district organisation and started active political life.^[2][3] Başarır, who was a candidate for Mersin MP for the first time in the 2011 general elections, was elected as Mersin MP in the 24 June 2018 general elections and entered the parliament.^[5]

Başarır, a member of Association for the Support of Contemporary Life and Hatay Businessmen and Bureaucrats Association (HATIAB), is married to Sebla Öztürk Başarır and has two children.^[6]