Celal Adan
Nationalist Movement Party MP for Istanbul and deputy speaker of Turkey's Parliament.
Celal Adan chaired the Turkish Parliament's debate on the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, which the chamber ratified late on 5 November 2026 by 279 votes to 119.
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Celal Adan sits in Turkey's Grand national assembly for Istanbul and is one of its deputy speakers. His party, the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), is the ally of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP).
Born in Tutak in 1951, Adan trained as a forestry engineer. He was the MHP's deputy chairman for political affairs from 2012 to 2018, according to his parliamentary biography.
In November 2026 he chaired the plenary that ratified the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement, binding Turkey to a defence pact with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. The MHP voted for it with the AKP and the main opposition Republican People's Party.
Adan's chamber ratified the Mecca pact
Adan presided over the plenary debate on the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement, which opened on 4 November 2026. Late on 5 November the chamber ratified it by 279 votes to 119. His Nationalist Movement Party backed the pact alongside the ruling Justice and Development Party and the opposition Republican People's Party.
The vote came a month after the three states invoked the pact in Riyadh on 5 October, and nine days after a parliamentary committee approved it. No motion to send Turkish troops to Saudi Arabia has been tabled. Any such motion would go to the same plenary, where Adan is one of the deputy speakers who chair sittings. Opponents, among them the left-wing daily Evrensel, argued the agreement could pull Turkish troops into Yemen.
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