23rd Parliament of Turkey

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23rd Parliament of Turkey
10 August 2007 – 12 June 2011
Speaker(s)Köksal Toptan
Mehmet Ali Şahin
Deputy SpeakersSadık Yakut
Eyyüp Cenap Gülpınar
Nevzat Pakdil
Güldal Mumcu
Meral Akşener
MPs550
ElectionJuly 2007
StatusAKP 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 MinistersRecep Tayyip Erdoğan
Government(s)60th

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.

Party Members Change Proportion
Justice and Development Party 341 Decrease12 62.0%
Republican People's Party 112* Decrease56 20.4%
Nationalist Movement Party 71 Increase71 12.9%
Democratic Society Party 23^ Increase23 4.2%
Other independents 3 Increase3 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