| Mehmet Ali Şahin | |
| Office: | 24th Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey |
| President: | Abdullah Gül |
| Term Start: | 9 August 2009 |
| Term End: | 28 June 2011 |
| Deputy: | Nevzat Pakdil Sadık Yakut Güldal Mumcu Meral Akşener |
| Predecessor: | Köksal Toptan |
| Successor: | Cemil Çiçek |
| Office1: | Minister of Justice |
| Primeminister1: | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan |
| Term Start1: | 29 August 2007 |
| Term End1: | 1 May 2009 |
| Predecessor1: | Fahri Kasırga |
| Successor1: | Sadullah Ergin |
| Office2: | Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey |
| Primeminister2: | Abdullah Gül |
| Term Start2: | 18 November 2002 |
| Term End2: | 28 March 2003 |
| 1Blankname2: | Served with |
| 1Namedata2: | Ertuğrul Yalçınbayır Abdüllatif Şener |
| Predecessor2: | Cumhur Ersümer |
| Successor2: | Abdullah Gül |
| Term Start3: | 1 November 2015 |
| Term End3: | 24 June 2018 |
| Constituency3: | Karabük (Nov 2015) |
| Term Start4: | 8 January 1996 |
| Term End4: | 7 June 2015 |
| Constituency4: | İstanbul (1995, 1999, 2002) Antalya (2007) Karabük (2011) |
| Birth Date: | 16 September 1950 |
| Birth Place: | Ovacık, Turkey |
| Party: | Welfare Party (1987-1998) Virtue Party (1998-2001) Justice and Development Party (2001-present) |
| Alma Mater: | Istanbul University |
Mehmet Ali Şahin (born 16 September 1950) is a Turkish politician. He was the Speaker of the Parliament of Turkey from 2009 to 2011.[1]
He was a member of the parliament for three terms from Istanbul Province and from Antalya Province of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party). He served as Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Justice, and as Minister of State responsible for sports.[1]
Şahin is a lawyer and a graduate of Istanbul University faculty of law. Before entering parliament, he was involved in regional politics, serving as the mayor of Fatih district in Istanbul, with the Welfare Party, and later with Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's Justice and Development Party.[1] [2]
On 5 August 2009, he was elected in a third round of voting as the 24th (27th, from the establishment) Speaker of the Turkish Grand National Assembly, succeeding his party colleague Köksal Toptan.[1] He was supportive of a solution to the Kurdish Turkish conflict, and dismissed the concerns of Turkish nationalists which argue that if Kurds receive more rights it would divide the country.[3] In 2016, he also suggested the release of the imprisoned members of Parliament from the Peoples' Democracy Party (HDP) comparing their situation to the one of Mehmet Haberal, a lawmaker of the Republican People's Party (CHP) who was elected while imprisoned.[4]
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