İsmet Yılmaz
İsmet Yılmaz (born December 10, 1961 in Gürün ) is a Turkish lawyer, engineer and politician of the Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (AKP). Yılmaz was Turkey's Minister of Education from May 2016 to July 2018.
Life
İsmet Yılmaz studied at İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi . In 2007 he was Turkey's Minister of Transport for a few months. He became Turkey's Defense Minister on July 7, 2011 as the successor to Mehmet Vecdi Gönül in the Erdoğan III cabinet . After the general election in June 2015 , Yılmaz was elected President of Parliament. However, when no government could be formed, there were new elections in November 2015 , which the AKP won. In the following cabinet, Yılmaz was again Minister of Defense. On May 24, 2016, he was appointed Minister of Education in the cabinet of Binali Yıldırım . He held this position until July 9, 2018.
Yılmaz is married and has three children.
Web links
- Data on İsmet Yılmaz on the Turkish Parliament website
- Hurriyet: İsmet Yılmaz
- German-Turkish News: Defense Minister Ismet Yilmaz, autopsy reports of jet pilots will not be published
predecessor | Office | successor |
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Cemil Çiçek |
President of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey July 1, 2015 - November 1, 2015 |
İsmail Kahraman |
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SURNAME | Yılmaz, İsmet |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Turkish politician |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 10, 1961 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Gürün , Turkey |