*** Welcome to piglix ***

Beşir Atalay

Beşir Atalay
MP
Beşir Atalay (cropped).jpg
Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey
In office
14 July 2011 – 29 August 2014
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Serving with Bülent Arınç
Ali Babacan
Bekir Bozdağ
Emrullah İşler
Preceded by Cemil Çiçek
Succeeded by Numan Kurtulmuş
Minister of the Interior
In office
28 August 2007 – 14 July 2011
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Preceded by Abdülkadir Aksu
Succeeded by İdris Naim Şahin
Member of the Grand National Assembly
Assumed office
1 November 2015
Constituency Van (Nov 2015)
In office
3 November 2002 – 7 June 2015
Constituency Ankara (II) (2002, 2007)
Kırıkkale (2011)
Personal details
Born (1947-01-15) 15 January 1947 (age 70)
Keskin, Turkey
Political party Justice and Development Party
Alma mater Ankara University
Religion Sunni Islam
Signature

Beşir Atalay (pronounced [beʃiɾ ˈataɫaj]; born 1947) is a Turkish politician who was Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey in the government of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan from 2011 to 2014. Previously he was Minister of the Interior from 28 August 2007 to 14 July 2011.

Born in Keskin, Kırıkkale Province, he graduated from the Faculty of Law at Ankara University and worked as a lecturer at Erzurum Atatürk University. He then worked at the State Planning Organization (DPT), Marmara University, and UNESCO's Turkish National Commission. Atalay was the founding rector of Kırıkkale University until he was removed from office by the Board of Higher Education (YÖK).

He became a minister of state in Erdoğan's first cabinet following President Ahmet Necdet Sezer's veto of a proposal to appoint Atalay as minister of education. Then in August 2007 he was promoted to interior minister, one of the few cabinet changes following the re-election of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan that summer, and also following Sezer's retirement from the presidency.

Beşir Atalay is married to Yıldız Atalay and has three children. He is a member of the Community of İskenderpaşa, a Turkish sufistic community of Naqshbandi tariqah.



...
Wikipedia

...