Numan Kurtulmuş
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Prof. Dr. Numan Kurtulmuş (born 1959 in Ünye
Ünye
Ünye is a large town and district of Ordu Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey, 76 km west of the city of Ordu. In 2009 it had 74,806 inhabitants.-Geography:Ünye has a little port, in a bay on one of the flatter areas of the Black Sea coast...

, Ordu Province
Ordu Province
Ordu Province is a province of Turkey, located on the Black Sea coast. Its adjacent provinces are Samsun to the northwest, Tokat to the southwest, Sivas to the south, and Giresun to the east. Its traffic code is 52...

, Turkey
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) is a Turkish
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 politician.

His family

Numan Kurtulmuş comes from a prominent Turkish family with a scholarly heritage and impeccable reputation. He is the grandson of the author of a book entitled A Commentary on "I believed in". The book was the first Turkish Islam
Islam
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ic book written in the Latin alphabet
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 at the early period of the Republican period of Turkey. The grandfather of Kurtulmuş was also a major
Major
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 in the Turkish army
Turkish Army
The Turkish Army or Turkish Land Forces is the main branch of the Turkish Armed Forces responsible for land-based military operations. The modern history of the army began with its formation after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire...

 who fought in the Turkish War of Independence
Turkish War of Independence
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. His father, Dr. İsmail Niyazi Kurtulmuş, was a founder of many charities and foundations.

Kurtulmuş is married and has three children.

Academic career

Kurtulmuş obtained his bachelor’s and master’s degree at Istanbul University
Istanbul University
Istanbul University is a Turkish university located in Istanbul. The main campus is adjacent to Beyazıt Square.- Synopsis :A madrasa, a religious school, was established sometime in the 15th century after the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople. An institution of higher education named the...

's School of Management. He then pursued a PhD
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 at the University of Cornell, U.S., and worked there as part-time lecturer. He obtained his PhD in Economy 1992 and became an assistant professor in 1994 at the School of Economics of Istanbul University.

He has authored many academic articles and two books, entitled Transformation in post-Industrialization and The Japanese Model for the Human Resource Management. He lectured at the Istanbul University's School of Economics on social politics, economy of work and human resource management. He obtained his professorship in 2004 and continues to lecture and research at Istanbul Commerce University
Istanbul Commerce University
Istanbul Commerce University is a private university founded in 2001. The University is founded and supported financially by the Istanbul Chamber of Commerce.The suppoter foundation is founded in 1876...

 as a full time university member.

Political career

In 1998, Kurtulmuş became Istanbul provincial head of the Virtue Party
Virtue Party
Virtue Party was an Islamist political party established in December 1998 in Turkey. It was found unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court and then banned in June 2001, for violating the secularist articles of the Constitution...

 (FP) and a member of the party’s General Administrative Board. Later he served as Istanbul Provincial head of Virtue Party and deputy chair.

Kurtulmuş was elected for the chair of the Felicity Party (SP) at the Third Ordinary Congress of the Party on 26 October 2008. After a rift developed with the followers of former FP leader and ex Prime Minister Erbakan
Necmettin Erbakan
Necmettin Erbakan was a Turkish engineer, academic, politician , who was the Prime Minister of Turkey from 1996 until 1997. He was Turkey's first Islamist Prime Minister...

, signatures of majority of the delegates asked for renewal of the congres and sacking of Kurtulmuş. Refusing this ended up in court and court ruled that party administration should be transferred from his leadership to a board of trustees, after the ruling he had to resign from that position on 1 October 2010.

On November 1, 2010, Kurtulmuş founded a new party, the People's Voice Party
People's Voice Party
The People's Voice Party is a current political party in Turkey. It was founded on November 1, 2010 by Numan Kurtulmuş.-External links:* official site...

(Halkın Sesi Partisi), of which he was elected leader on November 28, 2010.
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