Mehmet Şimşek
Mehmet Şimşek (born January 1, 1967 in Gercüş , Batman , Turkey ) is a Turkish politician of Kurdish descent who was Deputy Prime Minister in the cabinet of Binali Yıldırım .
Life
In 1988 he began studying economics at Ankara University and in 1990 was offered a scholarship to study in England. After completing his studies, he stayed in England and completed a master's degree at the University of Exeter in 1993 .
In the following years he worked for various companies such as UBS , Deutsche Bank and, most recently, Merrill Lynch . In the 2007 parliamentary elections, he was elected as a candidate for the AKP in the Gaziantep constituency and was appointed Minister of State after the election. He is responsible for the Treasury and the Turkish Central Bank .
Şimşek was Turkey's Finance Minister under Prime Ministers Erdoğan and Davutoğlu .
Şimşek was Deputy Prime Minister until the beginning of July 2018 and was regarded by international investors as a guarantor of good economic development and was counted among the followers of orthodox economics. Şimşek was replaced by Erdogan's son-in-law Berat Albayrak as the authority on financial and economic issues .
Private life
On January 8, 2010, Mehmet Şimşek married for the second time. His first wife was an American. His second wife Esra Kara is a Turkish architect.
Şimşek has both Turkish and British citizenship.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tasarım: Emre Baydur: TÜRKİYE BÜYÜK MİLLET MECLİSİ. Retrieved March 26, 2018 .
- ↑ Philipp Mattheis: "Son-in-law instead of competence" Wirtschaftswoche from July 10, 2018
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SURNAME | Şimşek, Mehmet |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Turkish finance minister and member of the AKP |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 1, 1967 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Gercüş , Batman , Turkey |