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Esat Canan

Politician

Esat Canan 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	Esat Canan · Эсат Джанан				[sources]
Alias	Эсат Джанан				[sources]
Birth date	1950				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Türkiye				[sources]
Country	Türkiye				[sources]
Citizenship	Türkiye				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Esat				[sources]
Last name	Canan				[sources]
Political association	Peace and Democracy Party				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q6024897				[sources]
Position	Grand National Assembly (member, 2002-2007) · Grand National Assembly (member, 2011-2015) · member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey · substitute member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (1995-1996)				[sources]
Education	Ankara University Law School				[sources]
Last change	2026-01-19	Last processed	2026-01-22	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Turkish statesperson (born 1950)

— Wikidata non-official source, 2025-12-30

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

MySociety's EveryPolitician Dataset of National Legislators40,653

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 Categories383,917

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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Wikidata334,490

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions526,342

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

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