İsmail Kahraman (born 7 December 1940)[1] is a Turkish politician from the AK Party who served as the 27th Speaker of the Grand National Assembly from 22 November 2015 to 9 July 2018.

In the private sector, he worked as the chairman of the board of directors of numerous companies and became the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Labour.

He was one of the founding members of the Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University development foundation and is still the chairman of the board of trustees.

[6] As Speaker of Parliament, one of Kahraman's duties is to pen the new draft constitution for Turkey, which since the founding of the republic after the collapse of Islamic Ottoman Empire has been based on the ideas of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk—Turkish nationalism and Western-style secularism, or separation of the state and religion.

[7] His call was met with "opposition condemnation and a brief street protest" dispersed with tear gas by riot police.