Mehmet Vecdi Gönül

Mehmet Vecdi Gönül

Mehmet Vecdi Gönül (born November 29, 1939 in Erzincan ) is a politician and former defense minister of Turkey .

Life

Gönül graduated from the Faculty of Political Science at Ankara University in 1960 .

He has been Minister of Defense since November 18, 2002. Gönül is a member of the Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (AKP)

He was Minister of Defense in the Gül Cabinet and Defense Minister in the 1st Erdoğan Cabinet . From August 29, 2007 to July 2011, Gönül is a member of the Second Erdoğan Cabinet of the AKP government under Erdoğan, in which he was again Minister of Defense.

Individual evidence

1. ^ 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

Web links

Commons : Vecdi Gönül  - collection of images, videos and audio files