Davutoğlu Declares the New Cabinet
PM Ahmet Davutoğlu presented the 62nd government to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
PM Deputies Beşir Atalay and Emrullah İşler and also Customs and Trade Minister Hayati Yazıcı were excluded from the cabinet.
Yalçın Akdoğan, Numan Kurtulmuş, Volkan Bozkır, and Nurettin Canikli were included in the cabinet for the first time. Numan Kurtulmuş and Efkan Ala are in the cabinet without having the position of member of parliament.
Ali Babacan will continue working as PM deputy in the 62nd government. He is the only minister who has been assigned in all government since AKP (Justice and Development Party) rose to the power in 2002.
List of the names in New Cabinet:
Prime Minister: Konya Deputy Ahmet Davutoğlu (Old Foreign Minister)
PM Deputy: Bursa Deputy Bülent Arınç
PM Deputy: Ankara Deputy Ali Babacan
PM Deputy: Ankara Deputy Yalçın Akdoğan
PM Deputy: Numan Kurtulmuş
Minister of Justice: Yozgat Deputy Bekir Bozdağ
Minister of Family and Social Policy: Sakarya Deputy Ayşenur İslam
Minister of EU Affairs: İstanbul Deputy Volkan Bozkır
Minister of Science, Industry and Technology : Kocaeli Deputy Fikri Işık
Minister of Labour and Social Security: Şanlıurfa Deputy Faruk Çelik
Minister of Environment and City Planning: İstanbul Deputy İdris Güllüce
Minister of Foreign Affairs: Antalya Deputy Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu (Old Minister of EU Affairs)
Minister of Economy: Denizli Deputy Nihat Zeybekçi
Minister of Energy and Natural Resources: Kayseri Deputy Taner Yıldız
Minister of Youth and Sports: Samsun Deputy Akif Çağatay Kılıç
Minister of Food, Agriculture and Livestock: Diyarbakır Deputy Mehdi Eker
Minister of Customs and Trade: Giresun Deputy Nurettin Canikli
Minister of Interior: Efkan Ala
Minister of Development: Cevdet Yılmaz
Minister of Culture and Tourism: Adana Deputy Ömer Çelik
Minister of Finance: Batman Deputy Mehmet Şimşek
Minister of National Education: Eskişehir Deputy Nabi Avcı
Minister of National Defence: Sivas Deputy İsmet Yılmaz
Minister of Forest and Water Management: Afyonkarahisar Deputy Veysel Eroğlu
Minister of Health: Edirne Deputy Mehmet Müezzinoğlu
Minister of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Communications: Karaman Deputy Lütfi Elvan (EA/MUY/BM)
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