Recep Akdağ

Recep Akdağ

Recep Akdağ (born May 8, 1960 in Erzurum ) is a Turkish politician , former health minister and former deputy prime minister of the Republic of Turkey.

Akdağ is a qualified doctor and has been a lecturer in paediatrics and epidemiology at Ataturk University since the early 1990s .

He has been a member of the AKP since 2002 and was Minister of Health of Turkey from 2002 to early 2013 . In 2006 he was responsible for the crisis surrounding the H5N1 bird flu in the east of the country.

Akdağ was health minister in the Gül cabinet and in the 1st Erdoğan cabinet . He had been a member of the Second Erdoğan Cabinet of the AKP government under Erdoğan since August 29, 2007 and was again Minister of Health from July 6, 2011 to January 24, 2013. His deputy was Nihat Tosun . On May 24, 2016, he was reappointed to the post of Minister of Health following a change of cabinet under the new Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım . From July 2017 to July 2018 he was Deputy Prime Minister, also in the Yıldırım cabinet .

Web links

Commons : Recep Akdağ  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Page of the Turkish Parliament ( memento of August 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) in the Internet archive

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
2. ^ The Ministry of Health of the Republic of Turkey: About Turkey & MOH
3. ↑ Ministry of Health of Turkey (in Turkish)
4. ↑ Baris Gundogan: Turkish premier announces major Cabinet reshuffle. Anadolu Ajansı , July 19, 2017, accessed April 9, 2020 .