İsmet Yılmaz (born 10 December 1961) is a Turkish politician who was a member of the Grand National Assembly from 2011 to 2023.
İsmet Yılmaz | |
|---|---|
 Yılmaz in 2011 | |
| Parliamentary Leader of the Justice and Development Party | |
| In office 17 November 2021 – 2 June 2023 | |
| Preceded by | Naci Bostancı |
| Succeeded by | Abdullah Güler |
| 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 – 29 August 2014 | |
| 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 |
| Prime Minister | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Ahmet Davutoğlu |
| Deputy | Naci Bostancı Şafak Pavey Koray Aydın Yurdusev Özsökmenler |
| Preceded by | Cemil Çiçek |
| Succeeded by | İsmail Kahraman |
| Member of the Grand National Assembly | |
| In office 12 June 2011 – 2 June 2023 | |
| Constituency | Sivas (2011, June 2015, Nov 2015, 2018) |
| Minister of Transport and Communication | |
| In office 8 May 2007 – 29 August 2007 | |
| Prime Minister | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan |
| Preceded by | Binali Yıldırım |
| Succeeded by | Binali Yıldırım |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 10 December 1961 Gürün, Sivas Province, Turkey |
| 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 |
Previously he was Minister of National Defense and Minister of National Education. Yılmaz 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
editİsmet 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
editGovernment
editAfter 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] During his first term as Minister of Defense, he praised Turkey's affiliation to NATO and saw its membership as the result of values like democracy and human rights that Turkey was defending.[4]
Speaker of Parliament
editYılmaz 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.[5]
Personal life
editİsmet Yılmaz is married and has three children.[1]
References
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ Gilsinan, Kathy (2019-10-11). "Why Is Turkey in NATO Anyway?". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2022-06-02.
- ^ "AK Party candidate İsmet Yılmaz becomes Turkey's new Parliament Speaker". Daily Sabah. July 2015.
External links
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