Abdülkadir Aksu

[6] He attended high school in Diyarbakır and in 1968 he graduated with a degree in political sciences from the Ankara University.

[7] The Free Thought Club was to be influential in politics as several members of its executive board became ministers in the Turkish Government.

[7] He was elected a member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, representing Diyarbakir for the Motherland Party (ANAP) in 1987.

[9] During his membership in the ANAP, he was a prominent advocate of Özals conciliatory policies dubbed as the "Politics of Four Inclinations".

For the AKP, he served as the Interior Minister from 2002 to 2007[11] and became its party vice-chair in replacement of Dengir Mir Mehmet Firat in 2008.