Yalçın Akdoğan

Yalçın Akdoğan

Yalçın Akdoğan (born September 22, 1969 in Üsküdar , Istanbul ) is a Turkish journalist and politician . He is a member of the Justice and Recovery Party (AKP) and from August 2014 to May 2016 was initially one of four and later of six deputy prime ministers of Turkey .

Life and education

Akdoğan studied communication science at Anadolu University in Eskişehir and obtained a doctorate in political and social sciences from Marmara University . He worked as a journalist for the daily newspapers Yeni Şafak and Star . He also worked for the district office of Pendik as press advisor to the then AKP chairman Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and finally as press officer for the prime minister.

Political career

In the parliamentary elections in June 2011 , he was elected a member of the AKP for the province of Istanbul , and in the elections of June 2015 and November 2015 he was again a member of the Grand National Assembly .

After Erdoğan's election as president, he became Deputy Prime Minister in the cabinet of the new Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu in August 2014 . On February 28, 2015, Akdoğan, as one of three representatives of the government, signed a declaration with three members of the People's Democratic Party (HDP) in the Dolmabahçe Palace in Istanbul that was intended to permanently end the conflict between the Republic of Turkey and the PKK . In his presence, HDP MP Sırrı Süreyya Önder read a call from the imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan to the PKK, broadcast live by several television stations , to lay down their arms.

Akdoğan was also a member of the subsequent interim government , formed in August 2015, and the subsequent third Davutoğlu government as Deputy Prime Minister. During the reshuffle of the government following Davutoğlu's resignation in May 2016, he left the government, but retained his parliamentary mandate.

Works

• 1995, Görsel İktidar ("Visual Power")
• 1996, Siyaset ve Kutsallık ("Politics and Holiness")
• 2000, Siyasal İslam ("Political Islam")
• 2000, Hayatı ve Siyaseti Düşünmek ("Thinking about politics and life")
• 2004, Kırk Yıllık Düş Avrupa Birliği'nin Siyasal Geleceği ve Türkiye ("Turkey and the future of the forty-year dream of Europe")
• 2004, AK Parti ve Muhafazakar Demokrasi ("The AK Party [AKP] and the conservative democracy")
• 2010, Tarihe Düşülen Notlar: 17 Aralık AB Zirvesinin Perde Arkası ("Notes on History: Behind the Scenes of the EU Summit on December 17th")
• 2010, İnsanı Yaşat ki Devlet Yaşasın - Democracy Açılım Sürecinde Yaşananlar (“Let the people live so that the state can live: The events in the democratic opening process”)
• 2014, Tarihe Düşülen Nolar 2007-1: 27 Nisan Bildirisi ve Sürecin Perde Arkası ("Notes on history 2007, vol.1: The background to the declaration of April 27")
• 2014, Yaşananlar Tarihe Düşülen Notlar 2007-2: Cumhurbaşkanlığı Seçim Sürecinde Yaşananlar ("Notes on History 2007, Vol.1: Behind the Scenes of the Presidential Election")

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biographical information at biyografi.info and on the website of the Turkish Parliament.
2. ^ Ocalan calls for disarmament against Turkey , Süddeutsche Zeitung, February 28, 2015.