Erkan Mumcu

Erkan Mumcu (* 1963, Isparta, Turkey) is a Turkish politician and the leader of the Motherland Party.

Biography

Mumcu studied law at the University of Istanbul. He is 1995 Member of the Motherland Party ( ANAP ). As a member of Isparta he was elected to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. In Parliament he was a representative of the ANAP in investigative, judicial and constitutional committees. Mumcu took over within the party leadership positions as Advisor to the Chairman (1997-1998), as Secretary-General (1997-1998) and finally as Vice-President ( 1998-1999). He was tourism minister in 1999.

When he the party leader Mesut Yilmaz sharply criticized on 21 May 2002, he was relieved of his duties Yilmaz. He left the party and joined the newly founded Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi case. In the elections of 3 November 2002 was to be again elected him to parliament. He was first Minister of Education in the Cabinet Gul, then again Minister of Tourism. On 15 February 2005, he resigned from the ACP and returned to the ANAP, which experienced the largest loss in its history in the 2002 elections. Mumcu was elected on April 2, 2005 as Chairman of 4 special party congress.

After the experimental fusion of ANAP had failed with the True Path Party just before the 2007 elections because of the return plan of Mesut Yilmaz in politics, Mumcu ran again as a candidate ANAP in Isparta. As the party with 5.12% failed due to the 10% threshold, Mumcu remained only the opposition outside parliament.