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Mehmet Emin Şimşek

PEP · Politician

Mehmet Emin Şimşek is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Mehmet Emin Şimşek · Mehmet Emin ŞİMŞEK				[sources]
Birth date	1964				[sources]
Place of birth	Muş				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	not available				[sources]
Citizenship	Türkiye				[sources]
Classification	National government (current)				[sources]
First name	Emin · Mehmet				[sources]
Last name	Şimşek				[sources]
Political association	AK Parti				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q106163435				[sources]
Wikipedia Article	tr.wikipedia.org				[sources]
Position	member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey · member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (2018-)				[sources]
Source link	www.tbmm.gov.tr				[sources]
Last change	2026-04-16	Last processed	2026-04-27	First seen	2023-04-20

Descriptions

Turkish statesperson (born 1964)

— Wikidata non-official source, 2025-12-28

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Data sources

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories350,779

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Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons282,564

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Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Türkiye Grand National Assembly593

Current members of the Grand National Assembly of Türkiye

Türkiye · TBMM

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions545,253

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: tr-parl-6bf11af4223888d12d8c6a4ebebf0e22f90c77a5 · tr-parl-mehmet-emin-simsek-ak-parti

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