Turkish politician

Celal Adan (born 10 September 1951 in Ağrı) is a Turkish politician. He was elected in 2011 to the 24th Grand National *embly of Turkey for the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP). Adan had previously represented the True Path Party (DYP) in the 21st *embly (1999 - 2002), and later been the party's deputy chairman (renamed Democratic Party in 2007).

In the 1980s and 1990s Adan had a close relationship with Mehmet Ağar; in the early 1980s he was tried and acquitted of being involved in the 1980 murder of trade unionist Kemal Türkler.

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