26th Speaker of the Parliament of Turkey
İsmet Yılmaz
Yılmaz in 2011
In office Preceded by Naci Bostancı Succeeded by Abdullah Güler In office Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım Preceded by Nabi Avcı Succeeded by Ziya Selçuk In office Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu Preceded by Vecdi Gönül Succeeded by Fikri Işık In office Preceded by Vecdi Gönül Succeeded by Vecdi Gönül In office 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 In office Constituency Sivas (2011 , June 2015 , Nov 2015 , 2018 )In office Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Preceded by Binali Yıldırım Succeeded by Binali Yıldırım
Born (1961-12-10 ) 10 December 1961 (age 63) Gürün , Sivas Province, TurkeyPolitical 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 10 December 1961) is a Turkish politician who was a member of the Grand National Assembly from 2011 to 2023.
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
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] 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] 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
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.[ 5]
Personal life
İsmet Yılmaz is married and has three children.[ 1]
References
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Grand National AssemblyBüyük Millet Meclisi (1920–1960) House of RepresentativesTemsilciler Meclisi (1961) Grand National AssemblyBüyük Millet Meclisi (1961–1980)
Senate of the RepublicCumhuriyet Senatosu National AssemblyMillet Meclisi
Consultative AssemblyDanışma Meclisi (1981–1983) Grand National AssemblyBüyük Millet Meclisi (since 1983) Interim speakers of the parliament
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