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turkey

H.E. Sadi Güven,
Chairperson, Supreme Election Council

part i part ii

CoUNtrY ProfiLE LEgisLAtivE sYstEM

1. Country Name LEGISLATURE
TURKEY
1. Structure of National Legislature
2. Official Name Unicameral
Republic of Turkey
2. Names of the Houses in vernacular and English
3. Government Grand National Assembly of Turkey
Presidential Republic

4. Head of the Government 3. Total no. of members in each house elected/
President – Recep Tayyip Erdoğan nominated
The Turkish Grand National Assembly or Turkiye
5. Head of the State Buyuk Millet Meclisi (550 seats (will increase to
President – Recep Tayyip Erdoğan 600 with next election following the April 2017 ref-
6. Capital erendum); members directly elected in multi-seat
Ankara constituencies by proportional representation vote
to serve 4-year terms)
7. Currency
Turkish lira 4. Popular House
8. Ethnic Groups (with %age population) Grand National Assembly of Turkey
Turkish 70-75%, Kurdish 19%, other minorities
7-12% (2016 est.) 5. Type of Electoral System
Proportional Representation
9. Date of Independence and from which Country
29 October 1923 (republic proclaimed succeeding part iii
the Ottoman Empire) ELECtorAL sYstEM

10. Date of adoption of Democratic Constitution
9 November 1982 (A) ELECTION MANAGEMENT BODy

11. Language (s)
Turkish (official), Kurdish, other minority languages 1. Name of the EMB(S) with Short form/Abbreviation
Supreme Election Council (Yüksek Seçim Kurulu)
12. Literacy Levels
96.17% 2. Website Address
Male literacy rate is 98.78%, for females is 93.56% www.ysk.gov.tr

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