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NUMAN KURTULMUŞ: WHEN YOU CAN’T BE NUMBER ONE
Portrait of the Week Aug 28, 2025

NUMAN KURTULMUŞ: WHEN YOU CAN’T BE NUMBER ONE

Numan Kurtulmuş is currently the speaker of the Turkish Grand National Assembly, and as such also chairs the “National Solidarity, Brotherhood, and Democracy Commission” formed to seek a solution to the Kurdish question. But if we were to borrow the rhetorical style of MHP leader Devlet Bahçeli, we might ask: “Who is Kurtulmuş, where did he come from, and where is he heading?”

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