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Mehmet Erdem

PEP · Politician

Mehmet Erdem 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 Erdem · محمد أردم				[sources]
Alias	محمد أردم				[sources]
Birth date	1966-09-05				[sources]
Place of birth	Aydın Province				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	not available				[sources]
Country	Türkiye				[sources]
Citizenship	Türkiye				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Mehmet				[sources]
Last name	Erdem				[sources]
Political association	Justice and Development Party				[sources]
Website	twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q17045982				[sources]
Wikipedia Article	ar.wikipedia.org				[sources]
Position	Grand National Assembly (member, 2007-2011) · Grand National Assembly (member, 2011-2015) · Grand National Assembly (member, 2015-) · member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey				[sources]
Education	Yıldız Technical University				[sources]
Last change	2026-04-12	Last processed	2026-05-19	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Turkish statesperson (born 1966)

— Wikidata non-official source, 2025-11-02

Relationships

Data sources

MySociety's EveryPolitician Legislators40,464

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories357,922

Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons290,970

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions552,139

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata343,843

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

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