Efkan Ala
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Efkan Ala MP |
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| Minister of the Interior | |
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In office 24 November 2015 – 31 August 2016 |
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| Prime Minister |
Ahmet Davutoğlu, Binali Yıldırım |
| Preceded by | Selami Altınok |
| Succeeded by | Süleyman Soylu |
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In office 25 December 2013 – 7 March 2015 |
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| Prime Minister |
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Ahmet Davutoğlu |
| Preceded by | Muammer Güler |
| Succeeded by | Sebahattin Öztürk |
| Member of the Grand National Assembly | |
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Assumed office 7 June 2015 |
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| Constituency |
Erzurum (June 2015) Bursa (Nov 2015) |
| Undersecretary to the Prime Minister of Turkey | |
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In office 10 October 2007 – 25 December 2013 |
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| Prime Minister | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan |
| Preceded by | Mehmet Emin Zararsız |
| Succeeded by | Fahri Kasırga |
| Governor of Diyarbakır | |
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In office 14 September 2004 – 10 September 2007 |
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| Preceded by | Nusret Miroğlu |
| Succeeded by | Hüseyin Avni Mutlu |
| Governor of Batman | |
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In office 2003 – 14 September 2004 |
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| Preceded by | İsa Parlak |
| Succeeded by | Haluk İmga |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1965 (age 51–52) Oltu, Erzurum Province, Turkey |
| Nationality | Turkish |
| Alma mater | Istanbul University |
| Occupation | Politician, civil servant |
| Cabinet | 61st, 62nd, 64th, 65th |
Efkan Ala (born 21 February 1965) is a Turkish politician who served as the Minister of the Interior from November 2015 to August 2016;. He previously held the same post from 2013 to June 2015 despite not being a member of parliament at the time. He served as Governor of Batman from 2003 to 2004, as Governor of Diyarbakır from 2004 to 2007, and as Undersecretary to the Prime Minister from 2007 to 2013.
Ala resigned from the cabinet on 31 August 2016, having been criticised consistently by the opposition for failing to tackle growing terrorism by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and the Gülen Movement (FETÖ). Attacks in Ankara, İstanbul and the south-east, as well as in the Syrian border provinces of Gaziantep and Kilis, had resulted in consistent calls for Ala's resignation, with criticism also being directed at how the Interior Ministry had appointed several Governors, police chiefs and bureaucrats throughout the country that were later identified to be supporters of FETÖ, the alleged organisation accused of staging a failed coup d'état attempt in July 2016. A reason for Ala's resignation was not given, though the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) claimed that Ala had been removed from office after the arrested Governor of Sinop and alleged FETÖ supporter had claimed he had close relations to Ala.
Ala was born in the township of Oltu in Erzurum Province in 1965. He studied Political Science at Istanbul University, graduating in 1987. He went to Torquay language school in England in 1989-1990.
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