In the months following the 1989 Revolution, he joined the new provisional governing authority, CPUN, created around the National Salvation Front.[1] After the 1990 legislative election, he represented Constanţa County in the Chamber, sitting with the Turkish Democratic Union (UDTR) group, serving on the Committee for Education, Science, Youth and Sport, as well as on the Committee on Human Rights, Religious Affairs and National Minority Issues.[2] He was among the founding members of the Democratic Union of Turco-Islamic Tatars of Romania (UDTTR), and its first president, being reelected for the same constituency in the 1992 suffrage (after which Gemil was Secretary of the Education Committee).[2] He was among the members of Parliament on the delegation sent to the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation.[2]