He was a former member of the Motherland Party (ANAP) and served as the Minister of the Interior between 1999 and 2001 under the DSP-ANAP-MHP coalition led by Bülent Ecevit.
[1] Tantan studied at the Police Institute and graduated from the Eskişehir Academy of Economic and Commercial Sciences Faculty of Management.
He received his master's degree from Bursa Institute of Business Administration and went to the United Kingdom to improve his foreign language skills.
The party was unable to contest the 2011 general election due to formal irregularities in submitting required documents to the Supreme Electoral Council.
The party put forward mayoral candidates in Istanbul, İzmir and Ankara but failed to win any municipalities.