Gülşen Orhan Explained

Office:Member of Grand National Assembly of Turkey
Nationality:Turkish
Birth Date: df=yes 12 December 1972
Birth Place:Van Province
Profession:Archeologist, Politician
Party:Justice and Development Party
Children:1

Gülşen Orhan Hanım (born December 12, 1970, in Van, Bahçesaray) is an archeologist and Turkish politician. She is a former member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey and the Chief advisor to the President of the Republic of Turkey.[1] [2]

Education

She completed her primary and secondary education in Van Province. She graduated from the University of Ankara, Faculty of Language, History and Geography, Department of Archeology.[3]

Political career

In 2007, She was elected the 5th candidate from the Justice and Development Party for Van as one of the 23rd term deputies of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.[4]

In 2014, She was attacked during a visit to citizens who voted in Müslih Görentaş Primary and Secondary School in Süphan District of Edremit by opposition party supporters during the Presidential voting process in the election centers in Van during the 2014 presidential election.[5]

She was reelected in 2011 and served as the 24th term deputy for Van Province until 2015.[6]

She also served as the general secretary of the Türkiye-Iraq Parliamentary Friendship Group. She speaks Kurdish, English and Persian.[7]

Family

She is the daughter of former Bahçesaray (district) Mayor Naci Orhan, and a sister to six siblings, two sisters and four brothers. She got married and gave birth to her only child after high school. Her husband, Abdulmevla Orhan is a civil engineer who died in a car accident in the ninth year of their marriage.[8] [9]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Gülşen ORHAN - 23. DÖNEM VAN MİLLETVEKİLİ (in Turkish). tbmm.
  2. Web site: Cumhurbaşkanı Başdanışmanı Gülşen Orhan Vali Oktay Çağatay’ı Ziyaret Etti(in Turkish). T.C. Bitlis Valiliği.
  3. Web site: Gülşen Orhan Kimdir? Nerelidir? Yaptığı Görevler Nelerdir? (in Turkish). diyadinnet.com .
  4. Web site: Gülşen Orhan kimdir?(in Turkish). 25 December 2013. IHA.
  5. Web site: AK Partili Gülşen Orhan'a saldırı (in Turkish). 10 August 2014. Hurriyet.
  6. Web site: Gülşen Orhan kimdir? (in Turkish). 5 February 2020. Hurriyet.
  7. Web site: Gülşen Orhan eşi Abdulmevla Orhan kimdir ne iş yapıyor? (in Turkish). 6 February 2020. Internet Haber.
  8. Web site: Haftanın kahramanlarıyla anılar - Can Dündar (in Turkish). 11 January 2009. Milliyet.
  9. Web site: Gülşen Orhan Biyografisi (in Turkish). Haberler.