Numan Kurtulmuş, Born in Ünye in 1959. He earned a master's degree from İstanbul University's School of Management In 1998. He became the Virtue Party’s (FP) İstanbul provincial head and a member of the party’s General Administrative Board then he served as the Saadet Party’s İstanbul Provincial head and deputy chair. He became a professor in 2004. Kurtulmuş was elected to the Felicity Party (SP) helm at its Third Ordinary Congress in October 2008. He is married and has three children.