Yılmaz III cabinet

Yılmaz III cabinet
55th Cabinet of the Republic of Turkey
Prime Minister	Mesut Yılmaz
choice	December 24, 1995
Appointed by	President Suleyman Demirel
education	June 30, 1997
The End	January 11, 1999
Duration	1 year and 195 days
predecessor	Yılmaz Erbakan's cabinet
successor	Cabinet Ecevit IV
composition
Party (s)	Minority cabinet from ANAP , DSP , DTP
representation
Great National Assembly of Turkey	261/550

The Yılmaz III cabinet was the 55th government of Turkey , which was headed by Prime Minister Mesut Yılmaz from June 30, 1997 to January 11, 1999 .

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). However, Çiller's DYP (19.36%) had more seats in parliament than the ANAP with 19.65% due to the right to vote.

DYP and ANAP agreed three months after the election to form a minority coalition that was tolerated by the Democratic Sol Parti (DSP) and the Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (CHP). Already at the end of May 1996, Çiller resigned the coalition after disputes and Yılmaz resigned on June 6th. Then President Erbakan, as chairman of the largest parliamentary group, charged with forming a government. Erbakan 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 30, 1997, Erbakan resigned.

Despite the efforts of DYP, RP and Büyük Birlik Partisi (BBP) 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 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 Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (CHP) tolerated the minority cabinet.

The CHP withdrew its support for the government on January 11, 1999 after a scandal surrounding the Türkbank became public, involved the government, private companies and organized crime.

minister

55th Government of the Republic of Turkey
Yılmaz III Cabinet - June 30, 1997 to January 11, 1999

title	Surname	Political party	Term of office
Prime Minister	Mesut Yılmaz	ANAP
Deputy Prime Minister	Bülent Ecevit	DSP
Deputy Prime Minister Defense Minister	İsmet Sezgin	DTP
Minister of State
	Güneş Taner	ANAP	June 30, 1997 - November 25, 1998
	Hüsamettin Özkan	DSP
	Yücel Seçkiner	ANAP
	Işılay Saygın	ANAP
	Hikmet Sami Turk	DSP
	Salih Yıldırım	ANAP
	Rifat Serdaroğlu	DTP
	Metin Gürdere	ANAP
	Şükrü Sina Gürel	DSP
	Ahat Andica	ANAP
	Işın Çelebi	ANAP
	Mustafa Yılmaz	DSP
	Rifaeddin Şahin	DTP	June 30, 1997 - September 21, 1998
	Burhan Kara	ANAP
	Cavit Kavak	ANAP
	Eyüp Aşık Yıldırım Aktuna	ANAP	June 30, 1997 - October 1, 1998 October 5, 1998 - January 11, 1999
	Kazım Rüştü Yücelen	ANAP
	Hasan Gemici	DSP
	Mehmet Batalı	DTP
Minister of Justice	Oltan Sungurlu Hasan Denizkırdu	ANAP non-party	June 30, 1997 - August 4, 1998 August 4, 1998 - January 11, 1999
Interior minister	Murat Başesgioğlu Kutlu Aktaş	ANAP non-party	June 30, 1997 - August 4, 1998 August 4, 1998 - January 11, 1999
Foreign minister	İsmail Cem	DSP
Finance minister	Zekeriya Temizel	DSP
Minister of Education	Hikmet Uluğbay	DSP
Minister for Public Works	Yaşar Topçu	ANAP
Minister for Health and Welfare	Halil İbrahim Özsoy	ANAP
Minister for Agriculture and Village Affairs	Mustafa Taşar	ANAP
Minister of transport	Necdet Menzir Ahmet Denizolgun	DTP independent	June 30, 1997 - August 4, 1998 August 4, 1998 - January 11, 1999
Minister for Labor and Social Security	Nami Çağan	DSP
Minister for Industry and Trade	Yalım Erez	independent
Minister for Tourism	İbrahim Gürdal	ANAP
Minister of Culture	İstemihan Talay	DSP
Environment Minister	İmren Aykut	ANAP
Minister for Energy and Natural Resources	Cumhur Ersümer	ANAP
Minister for Forests	Ersin Taranoğlu	ANAP

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 55th Government of the Republic of Turkey , Grand National Assembly of Turkey, accessed April 30, 2018