The following is a list of members of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey who died in office since its establishment in 1920.
List Member Party Constituency Date of death Age at death (years) Cause Mahmut Nedim Hendek Muğla 21 April 1920 40 Killed during the Hendek Rebellion İzzet Eyyüboğlu Trabzon 6 May 1920 57–58 Killed by bandits Ziya Tuğlu Gümüşhane 6 May 1920 31–32 Killed Ahmet Cemalettin Çelebi Kırşehir 1921 58–59 Illness Ali Şükrü Bey Trabzon 27 March 1923 38–39 Assassinated Halit Karsıalan Ardahan 14 February 1925 41–42 Shot during a parliamentary brawl İsmail Hakkı Çevik Eskişehir 12 June 1950 67–68 Mahir Türkay Sivas 29 August 1950 33–34 Raşit Gürgen Gümüşhane 14 September 1950 57–58 Cevdet Kerim İncedayı Sinop 19 May 1951 57–58 Liver disease Muhtar Ertan Bitlis 30 June 1951 38–39 Tevfik Koral Trabzon 28 July 1951 43–44 Hüsnü Akşit Denizli 18 September 1951 35–36 Şefik Tugay Malatya 3 November 1951 45–46 Ziya Barlas Konya 8 March 1952 42–43 Tahsin Coşkan Kastamonu 13 March 1952 62 Nuri Turgut Topçuoğlu Tokat 4 June 1952 54–55 Fikret Karabudak Denizli 8 October 1952 58–59 Hacı Ömer Cevheri Şanlıurfa 18 November 1952 64–65 Yusuf Kâmil Aktuğ Diyarbakır 5 December 1952 68–69 Yusuf Ziya Tuntaş Tekirdağ 15 February 1953 61–62 Halil Ayan Bursa 15 February 1953 48–49 Cevdet Topçu Amasya 15 June 1953 38–39 Reşat Şemsettin Sirer Sivas 2 October 1953 49–50 Road accident Galip Deniz Kastamonu 6 October 1953 49–50 Senihi Yürüten Istanbul 20 February 1954 59–60 Remzi Oğuz Arık Adana 3 April 1954 59–60 Plane crash Salamon Adato Istanbul 3 April 1954 59–60 Plane crash (same event with Remzi Oğuz Arık) Budak Mursaloğlu Hatay 12 October 1965 39 Atıf Akın Manisa 29 November 1977 51–52 Mutlu Menderes Aydın 1 March 1978 40–41 Struck by a car Mehmet İlhami Ertem Edirne 4 April 1978 60 Hasan Fehmi İlter Muğla 4 June 1978 49–50 Mustafa Kubilây İmer Konya 12 June 1979 50–51 Ahmet Hamdi Çelebi Ankara 24 August 1979 52–53 Durmuş Ali Çalık Konya 19 September 1979 36 Road accident Mehmet Emin Dalkıran Bursa 22 December 1979 53–54 Heart attack Malik Yılman Hatay 15 April 1980 44–45 Ahmet Hamdi Sancar Denizli 5 July 1980 64 Abdurrahman Köksaloğlu Istanbul 15 July 1980 49–50 Assassinated Mucip Ataklı Istanbul 19 November 1984 65 Mahmut Akkılıç İzmir 6 January 1985 57–58 Emin Alpkaya Niğde 22 March 1985 66 Ahmet Kemal Aydar Ankara 25 November 1985 60–61 Sinan Fevzi Fırat Zonguldak 8 April 1986 61–62 Mahmut Kepolu Diyarbakır 28 April 1988 64–65 Mithat Balak Çorum 8 September 1988 41–42 Mehmet Abdurrezak Ceylan Siirt 29 March 1989 38 Accidentally shot during a parliamentary brawl Zekeriya Bahçeci Antalya 8 February 1990 43–44 Mehmet Aydın Samsun 26 May 1990 62 Road accident Kamran Karaman Hatay 4 June 1990 61–62 Arif Ağaoğlu Adıyaman 28 June 1990 51–52 Heart attack Zeynel Aslan Adıyaman 2 July 1990 42–43 Mehmet Özalp Aydın 9 November 1990 40–41 Road accident Mümin Gençoğlu Bursa 7 February 1993 60 Road accident Yılmaz Hocaoğlu Adana 8 August 1993 51–52 Road accident Abdülkadir Cenkçiler Bursa 8 April 1997 50 Şerif Çim Bilecik 20 September 1998 33 Road accident Kadir Görmez Kütahya 8 September 1999 Road accident Avni Akyol Bolu 30 September 1999 68 Heart attack Bedri İncetahtacı Gaziantep 21 November 1999 39 Road accident Sıtkı Turan Çanakkale 12 December 1999 57–58 Road accident Nizamettin Sevgili Siirt 15 March 2000 54 Heart attack Abdullah Turan Bilge Konya 29 January 2001 52 Brain tumour Mehmet Fevzi Şıhanlıoğlu Şanlıurfa 30 January 2001 56 Heart attack following a parliamentary brawl Ali Rıza Septioğlu Elazığ 3 September 2001 88 Heart failure Namık Kemal Atahan Hatay 10 November 2001 54–55 Brain hemorrhage İsmail Aydınlı Istanbul 30 April 2002 52 Cirrhosis Ahmet Derin Kütahya 26 July 2002 52 Nezir Büyükcengiz Konya 3 January 2007 55–56 Road accident Mehmet Cihat Özönder Istanbul 26 July 2007 59 Road accident Harun Çakır Ordu 28 October 2011 57 Heart attack Şerafettin Elçi Diyarbakır 25 December 2012 74 Heart attack Ferit Mevlüt Aslanoğlu Istanbul 16 May 2014 52 Heart attack Murat Bozlak Adana 4 January 2015 52 Abdulkadir Yüksel Gaziantep 25 September 2017 55 Heart attack Erdin Bircan Edirne 18 November 2018 59 Brain hemorrhage Kazım Arslan Denizli 7 June 2019 65 Markar Esayan Istanbul 16 October 2020 51 Stomach cancer İsmet Uçma Istanbul 11 October 2021 66 İmran Kılıç Kahramanmaraş 18 November 2021 64 COVID-19 Yakup Taş Adıyaman 7 February 2023 63 Earthquake Deniz Baykal Antalya 11 February 2023 84 Hasan Bitmez Kocaeli 14 December 2023 53 Heart attack Sırrı Süreyya Önder Istanbul 3 May 2025 62 Multiple organ failure caused by a heart attack
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