Mustafa Karadayi
{{Short description|Bulgarian politician}}
{{BLP sources|date=November 2017}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Mustafa Karadayi
| native_name = {{Nobold|Мустафа Карадайъ}}
| native_name_lang = bg
| image = Мустафа Карадайы.jpg
| caption = Karadayi in 2017
| honorific-prefix = MP
| office = Leader of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms
| term_start = 24 April 2016
| term_end = 7 November 2023
| predecessor = Lyutvi Mestan
| successor = Delyan Peevski
Dzhevdet Chakarov
| office1 = Member of the National Assembly
| term_start1 = 21 May 2013
| term_end1 =
| constituency1 = 22nd MMC – Smolyan
(2013-2017)
9th MMC – Kardzhali
(2017-2021)
30th MMC – Shumen
(2021-present)
| birth_name = Mustafa Sali Karadayı
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1970|5|8|df=y}}
| birth_place = Borino, PR Bulgaria
| death_date =
| death_place =
| party = DPS (since 1991)
| spouse =
| children = 2
| alma_mater = University of National and World Economy
| occupation = Politician
}}
Mustafa Sali Karadayi ({{langx|bg|Мустафа Сали Карадайъ}}, {{langx|tr|Mustafa Sali Karadayı}}) is a Turkish Bulgarian politician who has been a Member of the National Assembly of Bulgaria since 2013. Throughout his tenure, he also served as the leader of his party, the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS), from 2016 to 2023.{{cite web|title=Mustafa Karadayi Elected Chair of Bulgaria's DPS|url=http://www.novinite.com/articles/174188/Mustafa+Karadayi+Elected+Chair+of+Bulgaria's+DPS|publisher=Sofia News Agency|website=novinite.com|date=24 April 2016|accessdate=1 February 2017}}
Personal life
Mustafa Karadayi is married and has two children.{{citation needed|date=January 2017}}
He graduated from the University of National and World Economy in Sofia, Bulgaria.{{citation needed|date=January 2017}}
Academic career
From 1996 to 2001 he was a professor of Informatics at New Bulgarian University.{{citation needed|date=February 2017}}
Political career
He is the founder of the Academic Society of MFR in Sofia and a member of the MRF since May 1991.{{citation needed|date=February 2017}} He founded the youth wing of MRF and chaired it from 1998 to 2003.{{citation needed|date=February 2017}}
From 2002 to 2010 he was deputy executive director of the Agency for Post-Privatization Control.{{citation needed|date=February 2017}}
Secretary of the Central Election Commission.
Since 2010, Karadayi was the organizational secretary of the Central Operative Bureau (COB) MRF.
Karadayi was elected to the Bulgarian parliament in 2013.{{cite web|url=http://www.parliament.bg/en/archive/MP/1629|title=National Assembly archive|publisher=National Assembly of the Republic of Bulgaria|accessdate=2 February 2017}}
Since 24 December 2015 he was one of three co-chairs of the interim MRF to IX National Conference of the party after Lyutvi Mestan was expelled.
Karadayi announced that he no longer wanted to be the chairman of the party and officially announced his resignation in 7 November 2023.{{Cite news |date=2023-11-07 |title=Mustafa Karadayi resigns as leader of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms |language=en-US |url=https://sofiaglobe.com/2023/11/07/mustafa-karadayi-resigns-as-leader-of-the-movement-for-rights-and-freedoms/ |access-date=2023-12-18}}