Ahmet Mümtaz Taylan (born 12 September 1965 in Ankara) is a Turkish film, television and theatre actor and director.

Taylan graduated in theatre from Hacettepe University State Conservatory. Between 1989 and 1993, he worked at the Diyarbakır State Theatre. In 1993 and 1994, he worked with Roberto Ciulli at the Theatre an Der Ruhr in Germany. Taylan has since worked in many theatrical projects with Yücel Erten. He became General Secretary of the Devlet Tiyatroları Sanatçıları Derneği or DETİS (State Theatre Artists' Association) and served in the position until he resigned in 2006. In 2002, he won the İsmet Küntay award for Best Director for the play Misafir sahneleyişi.

Emine Ülker Tarhan (born 29 November 1963) is a Turkish jurist and politician with the Republican People's Party (CHP). She was formerly a judge at the High Court of Appeals. Currently, she serves as the vice spokesperson of her party in the parliament.

Emine Ülker Tarhan was born in Tarsus, Mersin. She was educated in Ankara University, Law School. After working as a free-lance lawyer, she became a public defender. She served as a judge at the High Court of Appeals.

Emine Ülker Tarhan was a founding member of the Judges' and Prosecutors' Association (YARSAV). She served as its secretary general and chairperson.

She joıned the Republican People's Party (CHP), and entered the Turkish Grand National Assembly as deputy from Ankara after the general elections on June 12, 2011.

Emine Ülker Tarhan is married and has two children.

Doğu Perinçek (born June 17, 1942 in Gaziantep) is a Turkish politician, leader of the Workers' Party (Turkish: İşçi Partisi), a scientific socialist organization, and former chairman of the Workers' Party (Turkey). His first name Doğu means "East" in Turkish.

Perinçek was born to Sadık Perinçek of Apçağa, Kemaliye, and Lebibe Olcaytu of Balaban, Darende. Sadık Perinçek was the deputy Chief Prosecutor of the Supreme Court and parliamentary deputy of the Justice Party (AP); the predecessor of the True Path Party (DYP). although this contradicts Perinçek's self-published genealogy. His father was an assistant for the Chief Prosecutor of the Supreme Court, and later a parliamentarian. Perinçek attended Ankara Sarar primary school, an Atatürk Lycee, and Bahçelievler Deneme high school.

He interrupted his university education to work in Germany, going on to finish Ankara University's Law faculty, and working as an assistant in public law. Perinçek lives in Gayrettepe, Istanbul with his wife Şule Perinçek. They have two daughters, Zeynep and Kiraz, and two sons, Can and Mehmet Bora.

Mümtaz Soysal (born 1929 in Zonguldak, Turkey) is a Turkish politician. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey in 1994. He was a member of the Social Democratic People's Party (SHP). He is the founder and the leader of the Turkish Independent Republican Party (BCP) since 2004. He married Sevgi Soysal.

In 1974, he became the first former prisoner of conscience to serve on the International Executive Committee of Amnesty International.

Meral Akşener (born 1956) is a Turkish former Minister of the Interior.

Akşener was born in İzmit in 1956 and she was educated at Istanbul University. Her post graduate work was at Marmara University Social Sciences Institution. She then worked on the faculties of a number of universities before entering politics.

She has been Minister of the Interior in 1996 as a result of the Susurluk scandal replacing Mehmet Agar.