Hasan Özdemir (born 1 January 1947 in Oğuzeli) is a Turkish former police chief and politician. He was Istanbul Chief of Police from 1997 to 2000 and 2001 to 2003, and had previously been Chief of Police in a number of other provinces, including Ankara and Malatya,[1] [2] and governor of Ardahan Province.[3] He was elected to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey in 2007 for the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP).[4]