İsmail Kahraman

İsmail Kahraman
Kahraman in 2016
27th Speaker of the Grand National Assembly
In office
22 November 2015  9 July 2018
PresidentRecep Tayyip Erdoğan
DeputyAhmet Aydın
Ayşe Nur Bahçekapılı
Akif Hamzaçebi (2015-17)
Yaşar Tüzün (2017-18)
Pervin Buldan (2015-18)
Mithat Sancar (2018)
Preceded byİsmet Yılmaz
Succeeded byBinali Yıldırım
Minister of Culture
In office
28 June 1996  30 June 1997
Prime MinisterNecmettin Erbakan
Preceded byAgah Oktay Güner
Succeeded byİstemihan Talay
Member of the Grand National Assembly
In office
1 November 2015  9 July 2018
ConstituencyIstanbul (I) (Nov 2015)
In office
24 December 1995  3 November 2002
ConstituencyIstanbul (1995, 1999)
Personal details
Born (1940-12-07) 7 December 1940
İkizdere, Rize, Turkey
Political partyWelfare Party (1995-97)
Virtue Party (1997-02)
Justice and Development Party (2002-present)
Children4
EducationLaw
Alma materIstanbul University

İsmail Kahraman (born 7 December 1940) is a Turkish politician from the AK Party who served as the 27th Speaker of the Grand National Assembly from 22 November 2015 to 9 July 2018. He has been the Member of Parliament for Istanbul's first electoral district since 1 November 2015, having previously served as an MP for Istanbul between 1995 and 2002. He also served as Minister of Culture from 1996 to 1997 in the government of Necmettin Erbakan as a member of the Islamist Welfare Party.