Mesut Yılmaz (politician)

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Ahmet Mesut Yılmaz (born November 6, 1947 in Istanbul ; † October 30, 2020 there ) was a Turkish politician and three-time Prime Minister of Turkey .

Life

Yılmaz, who came from a Hemşinli family from Rize , first attended the Austrian St. Georgs College , but then graduated from the state İstanbul Lisesi (with German lessons supported by the German embassy with the possibility of high school graduation) and studied political science and economics at the University of Ankara . Between 1972 and 1974 Yılmaz graduated from the University of Cologne with a degree in economics . In the period from 1975 to 1983, he and his brother Turgut Yılmaz built up several companies, particularly in the textile industry.

In 1983 he was a founding member of the Motherland Party (ANAP). As a parliamentarian who represented the province of Rize , he became government spokesman in the first Özal government. In 1986 he became Minister for Culture and Tourism. After the 1987 elections, he became foreign minister in the Özal government.

Due to differences of opinion on Turkey's Iraq policy during the Gulf War , he resigned from the post of foreign minister on February 20, 1990. In June 1991 he was elected chairman of the ANAP in a battle vote, and on June 23, 1991, he and his government received the confidence of the Turkish parliament as prime minister . However, on October 20, 1991, the ANAP lost the elections . Yılmaz was the opposition leader from November 20, 1991. After the parliamentary elections on December 24, 1995, the ANAP formed a coalition with the Right Way Party (DYP). Yılmaz became Prime Minister again on March 6, 1996. Due to differences, the coalition failed and the DYP elected Necmettin Erbakan as prime minister on June 28, 1996 together with the Welfare Party (RP) . On June 30, 1997, after the military coup and the resignation of Necmettin Erbakan, he became Prime Minister for the third time, until he was replaced by Bülent Ecevit ( DSP ) on January 11, 1999 .

After the elections on November 27, 2002, Yılmaz resigned from the political scene. From 2003 to 2004 he was visiting professor at the Faculty of Social Science at the Ruhr University Bochum . His appointment was accompanied by protests.

Mesut Yılmaz received a scholarship from the CDU- affiliated Konrad Adenauer Foundation and spoke fluent German. Yılmaz was married to Berna Yılmaz. The marriage resulted in two sons.

Mesut Yılmaz and Turkish parliamentary elections 2007

On May 10, 2007, Yılmaz announced that he would run for the newly created Democratic Party in Rize Province in the early general election in 2007 . However, he ran in the elections as an independent candidate in the province of Rize and received 22.94% of the votes (41,042). So Yılmaz was guaranteed a seat in parliament. At the end of October 2009, Yılmaz joined the DP, giving the party a mandate in parliament. After Namık Kemal Zeybek was elected as the new leader of the DP, Mesut Yılmaz resigned from the party in January 2011.

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ^ Former Turkish PM and veteran politician Mesut Yilmaz dies. In: ABC News , October 30, 2020. Retrieved October 30, 2020.
  2. ↑ Call-up-Yilmaz-unload.htm. boalternativ.de, accessed on December 13, 2016 (signature campaign against the appointment of Yılmaz).
  3. ↑ Oliver Mayer-Rüth: "Terrorists, not freedom fighters". tagesschau.de, accessed on December 13, 2016 (interview with Yılmaz in the Tagesschau).
  4. ↑ Ağar'la görüştü, kararını verdi: DP'den Rize adayı ( Memento of May 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), Zaman online , accessed on May 10, 2007
  5. ^ Result of the 2007 parliamentary elections for the province of Rize , The High Electoral Council (YSK) ( Memento of July 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on July 23, 2007
  6. ↑ Mesut Yılmaz DP'ye katıldı
  7. ↑ DP'den istifa etti , article from the Hürriyet of January 20, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Yılmaz, Mesut
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Yilmaz, Ahmet Mesut
SHORT DESCRIPTION Turkish politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Istanbul
DATE OF DEATH before October 30, 2020
Place of death Istanbul