Necmettin Erbakan

**Necmettin Erbakan** (29 October 1926 – 27 February 2011) was a Turkish politician. He was the Prime Minister of Turkey from 1996 to 1997. He was forced by the military to step down as prime minister and was later banned from politics.

Erbakan was the founder and leader of several prominent Islamic political parties in Turkey from the 1960s to the 2010s. The famous one were the National Order Party (MNP), the National Salvation Party (MSP), the Welfare Party (RP), the Virtue Party (FP), and the Felicity Party (SP).

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **name**: Necmettin Erbakan
- **office**: List of Prime Ministers of Turkey, 23rd Prime Minister of Turkey
- **honorific-prefix**: Professor, Prof. Doctor (title), Dr.
- **image**: Necmettin Erbakan.jpg
- **deputy**: Tansu Çiller
- **predecessor**: Mesut Yılmaz
- **president**: Süleyman Demirel
- **successor**: Mesut Yılmaz
- **signature**: Necmettin Erbakan signature.png
- **predecessor2**: Zeyyat Baykara
- **primeminister2**: Süleyman Demirel
- **party**: National Order Party (1970–71)
National Salvation Party (1972–1981)
Welfare Party (1987–1998)
Virtue Party (1998–2001)
Felicity Party (2003–2011)
- **office1**: Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey
- **predecessor1**: Orhan Eyüboğlu
- **primeminister1**: Süleyman Demirel
- **successor1**: Orhan Eyüboğlu
- **successor2**: Orhan Eyüboğlu
- **birth place**: Sinop, Turkey, Sinop, Turkey
- **death place**: Çankaya, Ankara, Çankaya, Ankara, Turkey
- **spouse**: Nermin Erbakan <small>(m. 1967–2005, her death)</small>
- **children**: Zeynep, Elif, Fatih Erbakan, Fatih
- **alma mater**: 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**: _1980 Turkish coup d'état, 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 Parliament, Member of the Grand National Assembly
- **term start10**: 12 October 1969
- **term end10**: 12 September 1980
- **constituency10**: Konya (electoral district), Konya (Turkish general election, 1969, 1969, Turkish general election, 1973, 1973, Turkish general election, 1977, 1977)
- **term start9**: 20 October 1991
- **term end9**: 18 April 1999
- **constituency9**: Konya (electoral district), Konya (Turkish general election, 1991, 1991, Turkish general election, 1995, 1995)