Erbakan's cabinet

Erbakan's cabinet
55th Cabinet of the Republic of Turkey
Prime Minister	Necmettin Erbakan
choice	December 24, 1995
Appointed by	President Suleyman Demirel
education	June 28, 1996
The End	June 30, 1997
Duration	1 year and 2 days
predecessor	Yılmaz II cabinet
successor	Yılmaz III cabinet
composition
Party (s)	RP , DYP
representation
Great National Assembly of Turkey	293/550

The Erbakan cabinet was the 54th government of Turkey , which was led by Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan from June 28, 1996 to June 18, 1997 .

After the CHP under Deniz Baykal withdrew from the coalition government with the Doğru Yol Partisi DYP from Tansu Çiller , there was a transitional government and new elections. The election of December 24, 1995 was won by Necmettin Erbakan's Islamic Refah Partisi (RP) with 21.4% of the vote. Çillers DYP was only third strongest behind the Anavatan Partisi (ANAP).

The winner of the election was the Islamist RP with 21.4% of the vote. However, none of the other parties wanted to form a coalition with the RP. The second strongest force was the DYP from Çiller, which received only 19.36% of the vote, but had more seats in parliament because of the electoral law than the third strongest party, the Anavatan Partisi (ANAP) with 19.65%. ANAP and DYP started coalition talks, but could not agree on a joint government, so the ANAP had to start negotiations with the RP, which had previously been branded as anti-constitutional by all other parties.

Only after the Chief of Staff visited Tansu Ciller, DYP and ANAP agreed three months after the election on the formation of a minority coalition, which was tolerated by the Democratic Sol Parti (DSP) and the Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (CHP). Already at the end of May 1996, however, Çiller resigned the coalition after disputes about its alleged involvement in irregularities during privatization sales by her previous government. In order to forestall a vote of no confidence requested by the RP, Yılmaz resigned on June 6th. Subsequently, the President again entrusted Erbakan as chairman of the strongest parliamentary group with the formation of a government, which this time managed to form a coalition with the DYP.

But the military leadership did not accept the Islamist-led government. The military intervened and, on February 28, 1997, adopted comprehensive measures to reduce religious influence on the state. In May, the public prosecutor's office initiated a ban on the RP for violating the constitution by instrumentalizing Islam for political purposes. On June 18, 1997, Erbakan resigned.

Although DYP, RP and the Büyük Birlik Partisi (BBP) agreed to form a new government led by Tansu Çiller, President Demirel tasked the leader of the Motherland Party (ANAP), Mesut Yılmaz, with the formation of a new government. On June 30, 1997, Yılmaz concluded a new coalition government with the Democratic Sol Parti (DSP) under Bülent Ecevit and the Democrat Türkiye Partisi (DTP) under Hüsamettin Cindoruk , which had split off from the DYP after the military intervention. The RP was dissolved by the Constitutional Court in January 1998 and Erbakan was excluded from politics for five years.

minister

54th Government of the Republic of Turkey,
Erbakan's cabinet - June 28, 1996 to June 30, 1997

title	Surname	Political party	Term of office
Prime Minister	Necmettin Erbakan	RP
Deputy Prime Minister Foreign Minister	Tansu Çiller	DYP
Minister of State
	Fehim Adak	RP
	Nevzat Ercan	DYP
	Abdullah Gul	RP
	Işılay Saygın	DYP
	Sabri Tekir	RP
	Nafiz Kurt	DYP
	Mehmet Altinsoy	RP
	Namık Kemal Zeybek	DYP
	Lütfi Esengün	RP
	Selim Ensarioğlu	DYP
	Cemil Tunç	RP
	Bekir Aksoy	DYP
	Gürcan Dağdaş	RP
	Ufuk Soylemez	DYP
	Teoman Rıza Güneri	RP
	Ayfer Yılmaz	DYP
	Sacit Gunbey	RP
	Bahattin Şaker	DYP
	Ahmet Demircan	RP
Minister of Justice	Şevket Kazan	RP
Defense Minister	Turhan Tayan	DYP
Interior minister	Mehmet Ağar Meral Akşener	DYP	June 28, 1996 - November 8, 1996 November 8, 1996 - June 30, 1997
Finance minister	Abdüllatif Şener	RP
Minister of Education	Mehmet Sağlam	DYP
Minister for Public Works and Settlements	Cevat Ayhan	RP
Minister for Health and Welfare	Yıldırım Aktuna İsmail Karakuyu	DYP	June 28, 1996 - April 26, 1997 May 13, 1997 - June 30, 1997
Minister of transport	Ömer Barutçu	DYP
Minister for Labor and Social Security	Necati Çelik	RP
Minister for Industry and Trade	Yalım Erez Ali Rıza Gönül	DYP	June 28, 1996 - April 26, 1997 May 13, 1997 - June 30, 1997
Minister for Energy and Natural Resources	Recai Kutan	RP
Minister of Culture	İsmail Kahraman	RP
Minister for Tourism	Bahattin Yücel	DYP	June 28, 1996 - June 13, 1997
Minister for Agriculture and Village Affairs	Musa Demirci	RP
Minister for Forests	Halit Dağlı	DYP
Environment Minister	Ziyaettin Tokar	RP

Individual evidence

1. ↑ schwaebische.de : The Silence of the Protection of the Constitution ( Memento from September 17, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ 54th Government of the Republic of Turkey , Grand National Assembly of Turkey, accessed April 29, 2018