Güneş Taner | |
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Minister of State responsible for Economy |
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In office June 30, 1997 – November 25, 1998 |
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Prime Minister | Mesut Yılmaz |
Minister of National Defence | |
In office October 19, 1990 – October 28, 1990 |
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Prime Minister | Yıldırım Akbulut |
Preceded by | Safa Giray |
Succeeded by | Hüsnü Doğan |
Personal details | |
Born |
Istanbul, Turkey |
November 14, 1949
Political party | Motherland Party (ANAP) |
Children | 2 |
Alma mater |
Yıldız Technical University Istanbul University New York Poly |
Güneş Taner (born November 14, 1949) is a Turkish politician and former government minister.
Güneş Taner was born in Istanbul to Cengiz Tahir Taner and his wife Süheyla on November 14, 1949.
He was educated in civil engineering at Yıldız Technical University, and literature at Faculty of Letters in Istanbul University. He received a master's degree in Industrial administration from State University of New York Polytechnic Institute, USA. He has an honorary doctor title awarded by Plekhanov Russian University of Economics.
Taner was an executive at Citibank.
He served as politics advisor to the prime minister, and was among the founders of the Motherland Party (Turkish: Anavatan Partisi, ANAP). He was elected to the parliament four times in 1987, 1991, 1995 and 1999 general elections representing Istanbul Province.
In 1990, Taner was appointed placeholder for the post of Minister of National Defence in the Yıldırım Akbulut cabinet, and was in office for a short term from October 19 to 28. In the cabinet of Mesut Yılmaz, he served as Minister of State responsible for Economy between June 30, 1997 and November 25, 1998.
Turkey's first private bank, the Türk Ticaret Banksaı, aka Türkbank, went under control of the Treasury in May 1994 following its weakening as a result of the Turkish financial crisis, which blew up in January the same year. The bank's majority stake were taken over by the Savings Deposit Insurance Fund of Turkey (Turkish: Tasarruf Mevduatı Sigorta Fonu, TMSF) for sale in a public tender.