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Meral Danış Beştaş

PEP · Politician

Meral Danış Beştaş 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	Meral DANIŞ BEŞTAŞ · Meral Danış Beştaş · Мерал Даныш Бешташ · মেরাল দানিশ বেশতাশ				[sources]
Alias	Мерал Даныш Бешташ				[sources]
Birth date	1967-04-05				[sources]
Place of birth	Mardin / Mazıdağı · Mazıdağı				[sources]
Gender	female				[sources]
Nationality	not available				[sources]
Country	Türkiye				[sources]
Citizenship	Türkiye				[sources]
Classification	National government (current)				[sources]
First name	Meral				[sources]
Last name	Beştaş · Danış				[sources]
Political association	DEM PARTİ · Peoples' Democratic Party · Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party				[sources]
Website	twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q20988504				[sources]
Wikipedia Article	enwiki.wikipedia.org				[sources]
Position	Grand National Assembly (member, 2015-) · Grand National Assembly (member, 2015-2015) · member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey · member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (2015-2018) · member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (2018-2023) · 2 more...				[sources]
Education	Dicle University				[sources]
Source link	www.tbmm.gov.tr				[sources]
Last change	2026-03-16	Last processed	2026-03-16	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Turkish statesperson (born 1967)

— Wikidata non-official source, 2025-12-25

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey	2023-06-02	-

Data sources

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories339,648

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

MySociety's EveryPolitician Legislators40,558

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 Politically Exposed Persons271,755

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Türkiye Grand National Assembly593

Current members of the Grand National Assembly of Türkiye

Türkiye · TBMM

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions499,698

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata327,308

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

Source data IDs: tr-parl-meral-danis-bestas-dem-parti · evpo-4e4210fc-b79d-45d9-ae7a-4c447847ca78 · tr-parl-0ad09eed30f82d15f880cfda7514560966d6c467

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