Şükrü Sina Gürel

Şükrü Sina Gürel
Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey
In office 9 July 2002 – 18 November 2002
Prime Minister	Bülent Ecevit
Served with	Mesut Yılmaz Devlet Bahçeli
Preceded by	Hüsamettin Özkan
Succeeded by	Mehmet Ali Şahin
38th Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office 12 July 2002 – 18 November 2002
Prime Minister	Bülent Ecevit
Preceded by	İsmail Cem
Succeeded by	Abdullah Gül
Minister of State responsible for Customs
In office 11 January 1999 – 28 May 1999
Prime Minister	Bülent Ecevit
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Member of the Grand National Assembly
In office 24 December 1995 – 3 November 2002
Constituency	İzmir (II) (1955, 1999)
Personal details
Born	(1950-01-01) 1 January 1950 (age 71) İzmir Turkey
Nationality	Turkey
Political party	Democratic Left
Alma mater	Ankara University

Şükrü Sina Gürel (born 1 January 1950 in Izmir; transliterated as Sukru Sina Gurel) is a Turkish diplomat and political figure who served as the nation's foreign minister in mid-2002.

A native of İzmir and a member of the Democratic Left Party (DSP), Gürel represented his country at the Council of Europe from 22 April 1996 to 26 January 1998. He became foreign minister following the resignation of his predecessor, İsmail Cem on 10 July 2002. Later in the year he ceded the office to Yaşar Yakış.

Bibliography[]

• Tarihsel Boyutları İçinde: TÜRK - YUNAN İLİŞKİLERİ (1821 - 1993) (Turkish for Turkish-Greek relations), Ümit Yayıncılık, Ankara, 1993. Also translated in Greek (from the original Turkish) in 2008 as Οι Τουρκο-Ελληνικές σχέσεις (1821 - 1993) by Παντελής Τουλουμάκος ().

References[]

• Unlu, Murat. "Gurel's unexpected performance". Turkish Daily News (Sunday, 22 September 2002)

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