Necmettin Erbakan

Necmettin Erbakan
Erbakan in 2006
23rd Prime Minister of Turkey
In office 28 June 1996 – 30 June 1997
President	Süleyman Demirel
Deputy	Tansu Çiller
Preceded by	Mesut Yılmaz
Succeeded by	Mesut Yılmaz
Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey
In office 21 July 1977 – 5 January 1978 serving alongside Alparslan Türkeş
Prime Minister	Süleyman Demirel
Preceded by	Orhan Eyüboğlu
Succeeded by	Orhan Eyüboğlu
In office 31 March 1975 – 21 June 1977 serving alongside Turhan Feyzioğlu and Alparslan Türkeş
Prime Minister	Süleyman Demirel
Preceded by	Zeyyat Baykara
Succeeded by	Orhan Eyüboğlu
In office 26 January 1974 – 17 November 1974
Prime Minister	Bülent Ecevit
Preceded by	Sadi Koçaş
Succeeded by	Zeyyat Baykara
Leader of the Felicity Party
In office 17 October 2010 – 27 February 2011
Preceded by	Numan Kurtulmuş
Succeeded by	Mustafa Kamalak
In office 11 May 2003 – 30 January 2004
Preceded by	Recai Kutan
Succeeded by	Recai Kutan
Leader of the Welfare Party
In office 11 October 1987 – 19 January 1998
Preceded by	Ahmet Tekdal
Succeeded by	Party abolished
Leader of the National Salvation Party
In office 20 October 1973 – 12 September 1980
Preceded by	Süleyman Arif Emre
Succeeded by	Party abolished
Leader of the National Order Party
In office 26 January 1970 – 20 May 1971
Preceded by	Party established
Succeeded by	Party abolished (Süleyman Arif Emre as leader of the National Salvation Party)
Member of the Grand National Assembly
In office 6 November 1991 – 22 February 1998
Constituency	Konya (1991, 1995)
In office 12 October 1969 – 12 September 1980
Constituency	Konya (1969, 1973, 1977)
Personal details
Born	(1926-10-29)29 October 1926 Sinop, Turkey
Died	27 February 2011(2011-02-27) (aged 84) Çankaya, Ankara, Turkey
Political party	National Order Party (1970–71) National Salvation Party (1972–1981) Welfare Party (1987–1998) Virtue Party (1998–2001) Felicity Party (2003–2011)
Spouse	Nermin Saatçioğlu ​ ​ (m. 1967; died 2005)​
Children	Zeynep Elif Fatih
Alma mater	Istanbul High School Istanbul Technical University RWTH Aachen University
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Necmettin Erbakan (29 October 1926 – 27 February 2011) was a Turkish politician, engineer, and academic who was the Prime Minister of Turkey from 1996 to 1997. He was pressured by the military to step down as prime minister and was later banned from politics by the Constitutional Court of Turkey for allegedly violating the separation of religion and state as mandated by the constitution.^[1][2]

The political ideology and movement founded by Erbakan, Millî Görüş, argues that Turkey can develop with its own power by protecting its religious values and moving forward with faster steps by rivaling the Western countries in favor of closer relations to Muslim countries.^[3] With the Millî Görüş ideology, Erbakan was the founder and leader of several prominent Islamic political parties in Turkey from the 1970s to the 2010s, namely the National Order Party (MNP), the National Salvation Party (MSP), the Welfare Party (RP), the Virtue Party (FP), and the Felicity Party (SP).