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Place of Birth: Altıntaş, Turkey
About İdris Bal
- Idris Bal (born 25 April 1968 in Altintas Kütahya) is a Turkish politician and academic who led the Democratic Progress Party (DGP) between 4 November 2014 and 31 March 2015.
- He serves as a Member of Parliament for Kütahya Province, having been first elected to the Grand National Assembly in the 2011 general election from the Justice and Development Party (AKP).
- He is seen as a close supporter of Fethullah Gülen, having left the AKP following a dispute between AKP Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Gülen's Cemaat movement in 2013.
- He founded the DGP in 2014, which is seen as the political force of Gülenism in Turkey.
- He is a graduate from the Faculty of Political Studies at Istanbul University and pursued a doctorate at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom.
- He was a visiting academic at Harvard University in the United States and a lecturer at Baskent University in Ankara.
- He is married with six children and speaks fluent English.
- On 31 March, Bal resigned from his party and launched an attack against the Gülen Movement, accusing it and the government of censorship.
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