Parliament To Elect Its New Speaker

ANKARA - The new legislative year will start on Oct. 1st, 2004.
In accordance with the Constitution and Parliamentary By-law, the parliament has to elect its new speaker before October 10. MPs will be given a five-day period to apply for candidacy.
In the first two rounds of the vote for the new parliament speaker, two thirds majority (a total of 367 votes) will be required. If the necessary majority of votes cannot be reached in the first two rounds, 276 votes will be enough as of the third round for a candidate to be elected speaker.
If the necessary majority cannot be reached also in the third round, two candidates who receive the highest number of votes, will attend the fourth round.
The candidate, who gets the highest number of vote in the fourth round, will become the new speaker of the parliament.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of the modern and secular Republic of Turkey, was the first speaker of parliament.
The chronological list of Turkish parliament speakers is as follows:
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk 24 Apr 1920 - 29 Oct 1923
Ali Fethi Okyar 1 Nov 1923 - 22 Nov 1924
Kazim Ozalp 26 Nov 1924 - 1 Mar 1935
Mustafa Abdulhalik Renda 1 Mar 1935 - 5 Aug 1946
Kazim Karabekir 5 Aug 1946 - 26 Jan 1948
Ali Fuat Cebesoy 30 Jan 1948 - 1 Nov 1948
Sukru Saracoglu 1 Nov 1948 - 22 May 1950
Refik Koraltan 22 May 1950 - 27 May 1960
Faruk Surmen 1 Nov 1961 - 10 Oct 1965
Ferruh Bozbeyli 22 Oct 1965 - 1 Nov 1970
Sabit Osman Avci 26 Nov 1970 - 14 Oct 1973
Kemal Guven 18 Dec 1973 - 5 Jun 1977
Cahit Karakas 17 Nov 1977 - 12 Sep 1980
Necmettin Karduman 4 Dec 1983 - 29 Nov 1987
Yildirim Akbulut 24 Dec 1987 - 9 Nov 1989
Ismet Kaya Erdem 21 Nov 1989 - 20 Oct 1991
Husamettin Cindoruk 16 Nov 1991 - 1 Sep 1993
Ismet Sezgin 17 Oct 1995 - 24 Dec 1995
Mustafa Kalemli 18 Jan 1996 - 30 Sep 1997
Hikmet Cetin 16 Oct 1997 - 18 May 1999
Yildirim Akbulut 20 May 1999 - 30 Sep 2000
Omer Izgi 18 Oct 2000 - 3 Nov 2002
Bulent Arinc 19 Nov 2002 - ...
(UK-ULG) 22.09.2004