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İbrahim Özdiş

Turkish statesperson (born 1956)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ20090971 ↗
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İbrahim Özdiş (born 17 January 1956) is a Turkish politician from the Republican People's Party (CHP), who has served as a Member of Parliament for Adana since 7 June 2015. He previously served as a Social Democratic Populist Party (SHP) Member of Parliament for Adana between 1991 and 1995.

Born in Adana, Özdiş graduated from Çukurova University as a construction engineer in 1979 and began a career in politics in the same year as a member of the CHP Adana branch Executive Board. After the party was shut down in the 1980 military coup, he became the Deputy Mayor of Adana and served between 1989 and 1991. In the 1991 general election, he was elected as an MP for Adana from the SHP, joining the CHP after the party was re-established in 1992. After the 1995 general election, he worked as a technical advisor until 2014. He was elected again as a CHP Member of Parliament in the June 2015 general election.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1956, 2015, 1991, 1995—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1956-01-17. The account is most persuasive where İbrahim, Özdiş and Turkish can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “İbrahim Özdiş” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.