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Naci Ağbal

Naci Ağbal
MP
Minister of Finance
Assumed office
24 November 2015
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu
Binali Yıldırım
Preceded by Mehmet Şimşek
Undersecretary of Finance
In office
12 June 2009 – 9 February 2015
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Ahmet Davutoğlu
Preceded by Hasan Basri Aktan
Succeeded by İsa Coşkun
Member of the Grand National Assembly
Assumed office
7 June 2015
Constituency Bayburt (June 2015, Nov 2015)
Personal details
Born (1968-01-01) 1 January 1968 (age 49)
Bayburt, Turkey
Nationality Turkish
Political party Justice and Development Party
Alma mater Istanbul University
Occupation Civil servant, politician
Cabinet 64th, 65th

Naci Ağbal (Turkish pronunciation: [naːˌdʒi aːˈbaɫ], born 1 January 1968) is a Turkish politician and former civil servant from the Justice and Development Party (AKP) who currently serves as the Minister of Finance as of 24 November 2015. He has been the Member of Parliament for the electoral district of Bayburt since the June 2015 general election. He previously served as the Undersecretary to the Ministry of Finance between 2009 and 2015, resigning in order to contest the election.

Naci Ağbal was born on 1 January 1968 in Bayburt and graduated from İstanbul University Faculty of Political Education in 1989. He began his career in the same year by entering the Inspection Board, later becoming a Finance Inspector in 1993. In 2003, he became a department manager at the General Directorate of Revenues and later became the General Director of Budget and Financial Control in 2007. In October 2008, he was elected by the Cabinet of Turkey to the Council of Higher Education (YÖK), having been a Ahmet Yesevi University Board of Trustees member since 8 March 2008. On 12 June 2009, he became the Undersecretary to the Ministry of Finance.

Ağbal was one of the 200 bureaucrats who resigned from their civil service positions in February 2015 in order to stand as candidates in the June 2015 general election. He was put forward as a Justice and Development Party (AKP) candidate for his hometown of Bayburt and was subsequently elected to Parliament. He was re-elected in the November 2015 general election.


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