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Necmettin Erbakan

| birth_place = Sinop, Turkey | death_date = | death_place = Çankaya, Ankara, Turkey | spouse = | children = | alma_mater = Istanbul Erkek Lisesi
Istanbul Technical University
RWTH Aachen University | term_start = 28 June 1996 | term_end = 30 June 1997 | term_start1 = 21 July 1977 | term_end1 = 5 January 1978
| term_start2 = 31 March 1975 | term_end2 = 21 June 1977
| primeminister3 = Bülent Ecevit | term_start3 = 26 January 1974 | term_end3 = 17 November 1974 | predecessor3 = Sadi Koçaş | successor3 = Zeyyat Baykara | office4 = Leader of the Felicity Party | term_start4 = 17 October 2010 | term_end4 = 27 February 2011 | predecessor4 = Numan Kurtulmuş | successor4 = Mustafa Kamalak | term_start5 = 11 May 2003 | term_end5 = 30 January 2004 | predecessor5 = Recai Kutan | successor5 = Recai Kutan | office6 = Leader of the Welfare Party | term_start6 = 11 October 1987 | term_end6 = 19 January 1998 | predecessor6 = Ahmet Tekdal | successor6 = ''Party abolished'' | office7 = Leader of the National Salvation Party | term_start7 = 20 October 1973 | term_end7 = 12 September 1980 | predecessor7 = Süleyman Arif Emre | successor7 = ''Party abolished'' | office8 = Leader of the National Order Party | term_start8 = 26 January 1970 | term_end8 = 20 May 1971 | predecessor8 = ''Party established'' | successor8 = ''Party abolished''
| office9 = Member of the Grand National Assembly | term_start10 = 12 October 1969 | term_end10 = 12 September 1980 | constituency10 = Konya (1969, 1973, 1977) | term_start9 = 6 November 1991 | term_end9 = 22 February 1998 | constituency9 = Konya (1991, 1995) | nationality = Turkish | caption = Erbakan in 2006 }} Necmettin Erbakan (29 October 1926 – 27 February 2011) was a Turkish politician, engineer, and academic who was the Prime Minister of Turkey from 1996 to 1997. He was pressured by the military to step down as prime minister and was later banned from politics by the Constitutional Court of Turkey for allegedly violating the separation of religion and state as mandated by the constitution.

The political ideology and movement founded by Erbakan, Millî Görüş, argues that Turkey can develop with its own power by protecting its religious values and moving forward with faster steps by rivaling the Western countries in favor of closer relations to Muslim countries. With the Millî Görüş ideology, Erbakan was the founder and leader of several prominent Islamic political parties in Turkey from the 1970s to the 2010s, namely the National Order Party (MNP), the National Salvation Party (MSP), the Welfare Party (RP), the Virtue Party (FP), and the Felicity Party (SP). Provided by Wikipedia