Veli Ağbaba

Veli Ağbaba (born 3 April 1968) is a Turkish politician from the Republican People's Party (CHP), who has served as a Member of Parliament for Malatya since 12 June 2011.

Veli Ağbaba

MP
Deputy leader of the Republican People's Party
Assumed office
8 May 2014
LeaderKemal Kılıçdaroğlu
Member of the Grand National Assembly
ConstituencyMalatya (2011, June 2015, Nov 2015, 2018)
Personal details
Born (1968-04-03) April 3, 1968
Yazıhan, Malatya
Nationality Turkey
Political partyRepublican People's Party
OccupationPolitician

Early life and education

Veli Ağbaba was born in Yazıhan, Malatya Province on 3 April 1968 as the son of Hüseyin and Elif Ağbaba. He completed his high school education in Malatya at Turan Emeksiz High School. He graduated from Anadolu University in 1989. In his youth, Ağbaba founded the Anadolu University Student Association. He is married with three children.[1]

Political career

Ağbaba joined Social Democratic Populist Party (SHP) in 1993 after his military service. He served as a Malatya Municipal Councillor between 1994 and 1999. In the local elections of 18 April 1999, Ağbaba was elected Republican People's Party (CHP) Provincial President.[2]

Member of Parliament

Ağbaba was elected as a CHP Member of Parliament for Malatya in the 2011 general election. He was re-elected in June 2015 and November 2015. He is member of the Atatürkist Thought Association, a secular organization that espouses the ideas of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of modern Turkey.[3]

A report that up to 400 workers had been killed during the construction of the new Istanbul New Airport prompted Ağbaba to lodge a written questionnaire to the Turkish parliament on 13 February 2018.[4]

Books authored
  • Balyoz Kumpası
  • Kalemi Kırılan Gazeteciler[5]
gollark: Although I don't think I'd want to encourage an increase in lawyers.
gollark: If you could somehow make medicine/law available as undergraduate things that... might help?
gollark: The UK does those, I think, and seems to be doing fine lawyer and doctor-wise.
gollark: A convincing explanation I read of the everyone-has-to-go-to-college thing is that college degrees work as a signal to employers that you have some basic competence at listening independently, doing things for delayed gain later, sort of thing, more than providing any massively work-relevant skills, and it apparently got easier/more popular to get a degree over time, so the *lack* of one works as a signal that you *lack* those basic skills.
gollark: No idea.

References
  1. "CHP - VELİ AĞBABA". Retrieved 2016-07-27.
  2. "Veli Ağbaba Biography". www.haberler.com. Retrieved 2016-07-27.
  3. "Veli Ağbaba kimdir?". www.biyografi.info. Retrieved 2016-07-27.
  4. Boyacıoğlu, Hacer (14 February 2018). "Turkish government says 27 workers killed in Istanbul's third airport construction". Hürriyet. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
  5. "Veli Ağbaba : idefix'te | Kitap, Müzik, DVD, Çok Satan Kitaplar, İndirimli Kitaplar | idefix.com". www.idefix.com. Retrieved 2016-07-27.
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