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The Grand National Assembly of Turkey, usually known as the TBMM or Parliament is the unicameral Turkish legislature. It is the only body of government in the country as said in the Turkish Constitution.

It was founded in Ankara on 23 April 1920 in the midst of the National Campaign.

The current Speaker of the Grand National Assembly is Mustafa Şentop since 2019.

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  • Atatürk silindir şapka, frak ve İstiklâl Madalyası ile bir törende, 1925

    Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was the first speaker of the Grand National Assembly.

  • Atatürk TBMM'den çıkarken

    President Atatürk and his colleagues leaving the building of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (today the Republic Museum) after a meeting for the seventh anniversary of the foundation of the Republic of Turkey (1930).

  • First female MPs of the Turkish Parliament (1935)

    Eighteen female deputies joined the Turkish Parliament with the 1935 general elections.

  • Ankara asv2021-10 img45 Cumhuriyet Street on 29Oct

    The War of Independence Museum (Kurtuluş Savaşı Müzesi), housed in the first Turkish Grand National Assembly building in the Ulus district of Ankara

  • GNAT speakers

    The chair of the Speaker of the Parliament.

  • Süleyman Demirel Funeral 1

    Grand National Assembly of Turkey during the funeral of Süleyman Demirel

  • TBMM

    The current TBMM front facade.

  • Ankara asv2021-10 img73 Republic Museum

    The old TBMM.

  • TBMM açılışı 23 Nisan 1920

    Balcony of the old TBMM.

  • TBMM, August 2022

    The General Assembly is the meeting place of the TBMM.

  • Atatürk is entering to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, 1936

    President Atatürk entering the TBMM.

  • Süleyman Demirel Funeral 1

    Funeral of President Demirel.

  • The Garden of 2nd Turkish Grand National Assembly, late 1940's (16230096284)

    Garden of the second TBMM.

  • TBMM miniaturk

    A scale model of the current TBMM.

  • Anap Grup Başkanvekili Pertev Aşcıoğlu 1987

    Discussion in the TBMM in the 1980s.

  • Sati Kadin at the rostrum of TBMM

    Hatı Çırpan at the rostrum.

  • Ottoman Parliament Dec1908

    The predecessor of the TBMM was the Ottoman Parliament.

  • SPRY(1895) p733 - THE OTTOMAN PARLIAMENT, 1877

    The Ottoman Parliament in 1877.

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Asamblea Nacional de Turquía para niños

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