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Yaşar Karayel

Politician

Yaşar Karayel 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	Yaşar Karayel · ياشار كارايل				[sources]
Alias	ياشار كارايل				[sources]
Birth date	1950-03-01				[sources]
Place of birth	Akdere				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Türkiye				[sources]
Country	Türkiye				[sources]
Citizenship	Türkiye				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Yaşar				[sources]
Last name	Karayel				[sources]
Political association	Justice and Development Party				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q20476905				[sources]
Position	Grand National Assembly (member, 2007-2011) · Grand National Assembly (member, 2011-2015) · Grand National Assembly (member, 2015-2015) · member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey				[sources]
Education	Marmara University				[sources]
Last change	2026-01-19	Last processed	2026-01-19	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Turkish statesperson (born 1950)

— Wikidata non-official source, 2026-01-02

Relationships

Data sources

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons316,576

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories383,945

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

MySociety's EveryPolitician Dataset of National Legislators40,660

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

Global · MySociety · non-official source

External databases

The record has been enriched with data from the following external databases:

Wikidata334,491

Wikidata is the structured data project of the Wikipedia community, providing fact-based information edited by humans and machines

External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions525,917

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

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