Ayfer Yılmaz

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Ayfer Yılmaz
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Minister of State
In office
6 March 1996 – 30 June 1997
Prime MinisterMesut Yılmaz,
Necmettin Erbakan
Personal details
Born1956 (age 65–66)
Ankara, Turkey
NationalityTurkish
Political partyTrue Path Party (DYP)
Other political
affiliations		İYİ Party (İYİ)
EducationPolitical science
Alma materFaculty of Political Science, Ankara University
OccupationCivil servant, politician

Ayfer Yılmaz (born 1956) is a Turkish female former high-level civil servant, a politician and former government minister.

Private life[]

Ayfer Yılmaz was born in Ankara, Turkey in 1956. After completing the high school, she studied at Ankara University graduating from the Faculty of Political Science.[1]

She is mother of one.[1]

Civil servant[]

Her first occupation was deputy consultant for Economy and Trade at the Turkish Embassy in Bonn, Federal Republic of Germany. She was then assigned to the Undersecretariat of Treasury to serve as the Director General of Public Finance Department, Deputy Undersecretary, and finally as the Undersecretary, the head of the administration.[2] Her following occupations were chairperson of the board at the Turkish branches of World Bank, Asian Development Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and Islamic Development Bank.[1]

Politician[]

Yılmaz entered politics from the True Path Party (DYP). On the 1995 general election, she was elected into the 20th Parliament of Turkey as a deputy of Mersin Province. In the 1999 general election, she was re-elected. She served as Minister of State in the 53rd (6 March 1996 – 28 June 1996) and 54th governments (28 June 1996 – 30 June 1997).[1][2][3]

Consultant[]

Between 2002 and 2009, Yılmaz was the secretary general of the Strategic Research Center at the Başkent University in Ankara.She served as the member of the advisory board of the International Relations Department at the Okan University in Istanbul.[1][3]

Back to politics[]

In October 2017, Yılmaz joined the founders of the İYİ Party led by Meral Akşener.[2][3] She is a member of the board of founders undertaking the portfolio of "International Relations".[4]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e "Ayfer Yılmaz". Yeni Akit (in Turkish). Retrieved 2017-11-10.
  2. ^ a b c "Ayfer Yılmaz İyi Parti'yle siyasete dönsü". Tarsus Ekspres (in Turkish). 2017-10-27. Retrieved 2017-11-10.
  3. ^ a b c "Meral Akşener'in partisinde kimler var?". BBC Türkçe (in Turkish). 2017-10-25. Retrieved 2017-11-10.
  4. ^ "İYİ Parti'de görev dağılımı tamamlandı". Milliyet (in Turkish). 2017-10-26. Retrieved 2017-11-10.
Political offices
Preceded by
 Minister of State
6 March 1996 – 30 June 1997 		Succeeded by
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