Meral Akşener

Meral Akşener, born on July eighth, nineteen fifty-six, is a prominent Turkish politician, university teacher, historian, and academic. She is best known as the founder of the Good Party (İYİ Party), a significant political movement in Turkey.

Her political career began when she entered parliament as a deputy for the True Path Party (DYP) during the general elections of nineteen ninety-five and nineteen ninety-nine. Akşener served as the interior minister in the coalition government led by Necmettin Erbakan from nineteen ninety-six to nineteen ninety-seven. Her distrust of coalition partners played a pivotal role in the government's downfall following the military memorandum of nineteen ninety-seven.

In subsequent years, Akşener represented the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) in the general elections of two thousand seven, two thousand eleven, and June two thousand fifteen. She held the position of vice-speaker of the Grand National Assembly from two thousand seven until two thousand fifteen. However, after a fallout with MHP leader Devlet Bahçeli, she was not nominated for the November two thousand fifteen elections.

In two thousand sixteen, Akşener led a faction of opposition within the MHP against Bahçeli, ultimately separating from the party in two thousand seventeen to establish the Good Party, where she took on the role of leader. She was the party's presidential candidate in the two thousand eighteen elections and has been recognized as a key opposition figure in Turkish politics, often referred to as an 'iron lady' by international observers. Following her party's defeat in the local elections of two thousand twenty-four, she resigned from her leadership position, with Müsavat Dervişoğlu succeeding her.