Grand National Assembly of Turkey

The Grand National Assembly of Turkey, usually known as the TBMM or Parliament is the unicameral Turkish legislature. It is the only body of government in the country as said in the Turkish Constitution.

It was founded in Ankara on 23 April 1920 in the midst of the National Campaign.

The current Speaker of the Grand National Assembly is Numan Kurtulmuş since 2023.

Grand National Assembly Of Turkey Media

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  The chair of the Speaker of the Parliament

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  Damage to the Parliament Building after the failed 2016 coup

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  Address of Mustafa Kemal Pasha, the President of the Turkish Grand National Assembly to the members of parliament during the second legislative period of the assembly (1 March 1921)

• Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was the first speaker of the Grand National Assembly.

• President Atatürk and his colleagues leaving the building of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (today the Republic Museum) after a meeting for the seventh anniversary of the foundation of the Republic of Turkey (1930)

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  The session of the Grand National Assembly in 1928 (In the 2nd Parliament)

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  Eighteen female deputies joined the Turkish Parliament with the 1935 general elections.

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  The War of Independence Museum (Kurtuluş Savaşı Müzesi), housed in the first Turkish Grand National Assembly building in the Ulus district of Ankara

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  US president Barack Obama addressing the Turkish Parliament in 2009

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  The current TBMM front facade

Other websites

• The official site of the Grand National Assembly Archived 2018-08-18 at the Wayback Machine, including some pages in English
• Photo of TBMM (High-Resolution)
• hurriyetdailynews.com