Murat Başesgioğlu

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| name = Murat Başesgioğlu

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| office = Minister of State
(Responsible for Youth and Sports)

|primeminister = Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

| term_start = 29 August 2007

| term_end = 1 May 2009

| predecessor = Mehmet Ali Şahin

| successor = Faruk Nafiz Özak

| office2 = Minister of Labour and Social Security

|primeminister2 = Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

| term_start2 = 19 November 2002

| term_end2 = 29 August 2007

| predecessor2 = Nejat Arseven

| successor2 = Faruk Çelik

| office3 = Minister of the Interior

| primeminister3 = Mesut Yılmaz

| term_start3 = 30 June 1997

| term_end3 = 5 August 1998

| predecessor3 = Meral Akşener

| successor3 = Kutlu Aktaş

| office4 = Member of the Grand National Assembly

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| term_start4 = 14 December 1987

| term_end4 = 1 November 2015

| constituency4 = Kastamonu (1987,1991,1995,1999)
İstanbul (II) (2002, 2007, 2011, June 2015)

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1955|03|01}}

| birth_place = Kastamonu, Turkey

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| party = Nationalist Movement Party (2011 - Present)
Justice and Development Party (2002 - 2010)
Motherland Party (1984 - 2002)

| children = 2 (Hakan and Mustafa Çağrı)

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Murat Başesgioğlu (born 1955) is a Turkish politician who was a Minister of State of Turkey and Member of the Turkish Parliament for Kastamonu for the ruling Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (AK Party).

Biography

Başesgioğlu was born in Kastamonu. He completed his primary and secondary education at Isfendiyar Bey primary school in Kastamonu. He later graduated in law from Istanbul University and has previously been member of parliament for the centre-right ANAP and the minister of the interior. After graduating, in 1984, he worked as a freelance lawyer for seven years and was registered to the Kastamonu Bar Council. Having resigned from ANAP he joined the AK Party. He also resigned from Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi in 2010 due to opposition to the party's parliamentary policies. He later went and joined the Nationalist Movement Party on 28 January 2011.{{cite web|title=Murat Başesgioğlu kimdir ? Başesgioğlu 28 yıldır vekil seçiliyor|url=https://www.haberler.com/murat-basesgioglu-kimdir-basesgioglu-28-yildir-7443169-haberi/|publisher=Harberler.com|accessdate=23 June 2015|language=Turkish}}

In the 2011 General Elections and the 2015 General Elections, he was elected as Istanbul deputy from the MHP.{{Cite web |date=2014-09-03 |title=TÜRKİYE BÜYÜK MİLLET MECLİSİ |url=http://www.tbmm.gov.tr/develop/owa/milletvekillerimiz_sd.bilgi?p_donem=24&p_sicil=4362 |access-date=2023-06-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140903201744/http://www.tbmm.gov.tr/develop/owa/milletvekillerimiz_sd.bilgi?p_donem=24&p_sicil=4362 |archive-date=2014-09-03 }}

He can speak French, married and has 2 children.{{Cite web |date=2014-09-03 |title=TÜRKİYE BÜYÜK MİLLET MECLİSİ |url=http://www.tbmm.gov.tr/develop/owa/milletvekillerimiz_sd.bilgi?p_donem=24&p_sicil=4362 |access-date=2023-06-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140903201744/http://www.tbmm.gov.tr/develop/owa/milletvekillerimiz_sd.bilgi?p_donem=24&p_sicil=4362 |archive-date=2014-09-03 }}