İsmet Yılmaz
İsmet Yılmaz MP | |
---|---|
Minister of National Education | |
In office 24 May 2016 – 10 July 2018 | |
Prime Minister | Binali Yıldırım |
Preceded by | Nabi Avcı |
Succeeded by | Ziya Selçuk |
Minister of National Defense | |
In office 24 November 2015 – 24 May 2016 | |
Prime Minister | Ahmet Davutoğlu |
Preceded by | Vecdi Gönül |
Succeeded by | Fikri Işık |
In office 6 July 2011 – 1 July 2015 | |
Prime Minister | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Ahmet Davutoğlu |
Preceded by | Vecdi Gönül |
Succeeded by | Vecdi Gönül |
26th Speaker of the Grand National Assembly | |
In office 1 July 2015 – 17 November 2015 | |
President | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan |
Deputy | Naci Bostancı Şafak Pavey Koray Aydın Yurdusev Özsökmenler |
Preceded by | Cemil Çiçek |
Succeeded by | İsmail Kahraman |
Minister of Transport and Communication | |
In office May 8, 2007 – August 29, 2007 | |
Prime Minister | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan |
Preceded by | Binali Yıldırım |
Succeeded by | Binali Yıldırım |
Member of the Grand National Assembly | |
Assumed office 12 June 2011 | |
Constituency | Sivas (2011, June 2015, Nov 2015) |
Personal details | |
Born | Gürün, Sivas Province, Turkey | December 10, 1961
Nationality | Turkish |
Political party | Justice and Development Party |
Education | Haydarpaşa High School |
Alma mater | |
Profession | Mechanical engineer, law consultant, civil servant, politician |
Cabinet | 59th, 61st, 62nd, 64th, 65th |
İsmet Yılmaz (born December 10, 1961) is a Turkish politician. Previously he was Minister of National Defense and Minister of National Education. Also briefly served as the Speaker of the Grand National Assembly. Prior to entering politics, he worked as a law consultant and mechanical engineer.
Early life and education[]
İsmet Yılmaz was born in Gürün, Sivas Province. Following his primary education in his hometown, he enrolled in Haydarpaşa High School in Istanbul. Then, he studied mechanical engineering at the School of Maritime in Istanbul Technical University, graduating in 1982 with a bachelor's degree. Yılmaz attended then Istanbul University's Faculty of Law for education in maritime law and finished in 1987. He continued his further studies in "technical management in maritime" at the World Maritime University in Malmö, Sweden earning a master's degree. He received another master's degree in law from the Institute of Social Sciences in Marmara University, Istanbul. Finally, İsmet Yılmaz received a Doctor of Law degree from the Institute of Social Sciences at Ankara University.[1]
Career[]
Government[]
After serving twenty years as an engineer and a law consultant, he became Undersecretary of Maritime Affairs at the Ministry of Transport and Communication on December 31, 2002. In accordance with Article 114 of the Constitution of Turkey, he was appointed neutral Minister of Transport and Communication on May 8, 2007, as placeholder for Binali Yıldırım until the 2007 general elections.[2] Yılmaz was appointed Undersecretary at the Ministry of Culture and Tourism on November 1, 2007.[1]
He entered politics as a member of the AK Party and became deputy for Sivas Province following the 2011 general elections. On July 6, 2011, Yılmaz was appointed Minister of National Defence in the Cabinet Erdoğan III.[1][3]
Speaker of Parliament[]
Yılmaz was put forward as the AKP's candidate for Speaker of the Grand National Assembly for the June–July 2015 speaker elections. Since the AKP did not have a majority (276 seats) in Parliament, the election went into a fourth and final round where Yılmaz managed to win a simple majority of the vote on 1 July 2015. He was thus elected as the Speaker with 258 votes (exactly the same number of votes as AKP MPs) to rival Deniz Baykal's 182 votes.[4]
Personal life[]
İsmet Yılmaz is married and has three children.[1]
References[]
- ^ a b c d "Özgeçmiş" (in Turkish). İsmet Yılmaz. Retrieved 2011-10-19.
- ^ "Yılmaz: Kişi başına hız 400 kilometreye yükseldi". Hürriyet. 2007-05-23. Retrieved 2010-11-28.
Ulaştırma Bakanı İsmet Yılmaz [Transport minister İsmet Yılmaz]
- ^ "İşte yeni kabine - Mynet Haber" (in Turkish). Retrieved 2013-07-15.
{{cite news}}
: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "AK Party candidate İsmet Yılmaz becomes Turkey's new Parliament Speaker". July 2015.
External links[]
- Media related to İsmet Yılmaz at Wikimedia Commons
- 1961 births
- People from Gürün
- Haydarpaşa High School alumni
- Istanbul Technical University alumni
- Istanbul University Faculty of Law alumni
- Turkish mechanical engineers
- Turkish jurists
- Marmara University alumni
- Ankara University alumni
- Deputies of Sivas
- Justice and Development Party (Turkey) politicians
- Ministers of Transport and Communications of Turkey
- Ministers of National Defence of Turkey
- Government ministers of Turkey
- Speakers of the Parliament of Turkey
- Members of the 24th Parliament of Turkey
- Members of the 25th Parliament of Turkey
- Members of the 26th Parliament of Turkey
- Members of the 64th government of Turkey
- Members of the 65th government of Turkey
- Living people
- Members of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey
- Turkish politician stubs