Cemil Çiçek

Cemil Çiçek (2014)

Cemil Çiçek (born November 15, 1946 in the village of Musabeyli Boğazı , Yozgat Province , Turkey) is a Turkish politician of the AKP party . From 2002 to 2007 Çiçek held the offices of minister of justice and government spokesman , and later he was also deputy prime minister and president of the Turkish parliament .

Life

Cemil Çiçek was born as the eldest son of eleven siblings. In the birth register it was registered as Efendi Çiçek after his grandfather. After elementary school, the first name is changed to Cemil. He attended elementary school in the village elementary school of Musabeyli Boğazı, his home village. He attended middle school in the provincial capital Yozgat, 21 km away. He then graduated from the İmam-Hatip-Gymnasium there . In 1965 he began studying law at Istanbul University . After completing his studies in 1971, he worked as a lawyer until 1983.

In 1983 Çiçek was one of the 37 co-founders of the liberal-conservative Anavatan Partisi (ANAP), which in the same year became the strongest party with 45.14% of the vote and then became the government. Due to a veto by the National Security Council , Çiçek was not allowed to stand for parliamentary elections. Instead, Çiçek became mayor of Yozgat in 1984 for the ANAP. In 1987 Çiçek became a member of parliament and Minister of State for the Family under Prime Minister Turgut Özal . He was also Minister of State under Yıldırım Akbulut and Mesut Yılmaz . In 1997 he left the ANAP and became a member of the Fazilet Partisi . After this was banned in 2001, he moved to the ruling Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (AKP).

Çiçek was Minister of Justice in the Gül cabinet and Minister of Justice in the 1st Erdoğan cabinet . Since August 29, 2007 he has been a member of the Second Erdoğan Cabinet of the AKP government under Erdoğan , in which he was Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for the coordination of ministries, human rights and the Cyprus question .

Çiçek is married and has three children.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Report with the magazine Aksiyon  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Turkish), accessed April 1, 2013  
2. ↑ Biography Çiçeks (Turkish), accessed on April 1, 2013.
3. ↑ who is who (Turkish), accessed April 1, 2013
4. ^ Office of the Prime Minister - General Directorate for Press and Information : Members of the 60th Government of the Republic of Turkey ( Memento of April 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on August 17, 2008

predecessor	Office	successor
Mehmet Ali Şahin	President of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey July 7, 2011 - July 1, 2015	İsmet Yılmaz