| Kaj Turunen | |
| Office: | Member of Finnish Parliament for South-Eastern Finland |
| Term Start: | 22 April 2015 |
| Term End: | 16 April 2019 |
| Office1: | Member of Finnish Parliament for Southern Savonia |
| Term Start1: | 20 April 2011 |
| Term End1: | 21 April 2015 |
| Birth Date: | 27 December 1960 |
| Birth Place: | Lohja, Finland |
| Nationality: | Finn |
Kaj Valentin Turunen (born 27 December 1960 in Lohja) is a Finnish politician. Turunen was elected to the Finnish Parliament in the 2011 election as a The Finns Party candidate from the electoral district of Southern Savonia with 2,631 votes.[1] [2] In 2015, he won a seat in South-Eastern Finland.
On 13 June 2017, Turunen and 19 others left the Finns Party parliamentary group to found the New Alternative parliamentary group.[3] In April 2018, he left the party to join the National Coalition Party.[4]
Turunen has a professional education as a construction worker (1978, Jyväskylän ammattikoulu), and has further professional qualifications in entrepreneurship (2008) and leadership (2011), both from JAMK University of Applied Sciences.