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Tanju Özcan

PEP · Politician

Tanju Özcan 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	Tanju Özcan				[sources]
Birth date	1973-12-12				[sources]
Place of birth	Bolu				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	not available				[sources]
Country	Türkiye				[sources]
Citizenship	Türkiye				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Tanju				[sources]
Last name	Özcan				[sources]
Political association	Republican People's Party				[sources]
Website	twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q23920916				[sources]
Wikipedia Article	commonswiki.wikipedia.org				[sources]
Position	Grand National Assembly (member, 2011-2015) · Grand National Assembly (member, 2015-) · Grand National Assembly (member, 2015-2015) · mayor of Bolu (2019-) · mayor of Bolu (2024-) · 1 more...				[sources]
Education	Ankara University Law School				[sources]
Last change	2026-03-16	Last processed	2026-03-16	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Turkish statesperson (born 1973)

— Wikidata non-official source, 2025-12-31

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Data sources

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

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Wikidata327,308

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions499,698

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