Abdülkadir Aksu
Turkish politician (born 1944)
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Abdülkadir Aksu (/ɑːbduːlˈkɑːdər ˈɑːksuː/ ⓘ ahb-dool-KAH-dər AHK-soo; Turkish: [abdylkaːˈdiɾ ˈaksu]; born 1944, Diyarbakır) is a Turkish politician from Diyarbakır. He is of Kurdish origin.[1][2][3]
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Abdülkadir Aksu | |
|---|---|
| Minister of the Interior | |
| In office 19 November 2002 – 7 May 2007 | |
| Prime Minister | Abdullah Gül Recep Tayyip Erdoğan |
| Preceded by | Muzaffer Ecemiş |
| Succeeded by | Osman Güneş |
| In office 31 March 1989 – 24 November 1991 | |
| Prime Minister | |
| Preceded by | Mustafa Kalemli |
| Succeeded by | Mustafa Kalemli |
| Minister of state (Responsible for Southeastern Anatolia Project) | |
| In office 6 March 1996 – 28 June 1996 | |
| Prime Minister | Mesut Yılmaz |
| Member of the Grand National Assembly | |
| In office 18 April 1999 – 7 June 2015 | |
| Constituency | Istanbul (III) (1999, 2002, 2007, 2011) |
| In office 8 January 1996 – 18 April 1999 | |
| Constituency | Diyarbakır (1995) |
| In office 29 November 1987 – 20 October 1991 | |
| Constituency | Diyarbakır (1987) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | October 12, 1944 |
| Party | Justice and Development Party (2001 - present) Virtue Party (1998 - 2001) Welfare Party (1996 - 1998) Motherland Party (1987 - 1996) |
He is a member of the Community of İskenderpaşa, a Turkish sufi community of Naqshbandi tariqah.[4]
Early life and education
He attended high school in Diyarbakır and in 1968 graduated with a degree in political sciences from the Ankara University.[5] During his time at the university he became a member of the Free Thought Club which was as a counterweight to the Socialist Thought Club.[5] The Free Thought Club was to be influential in politics as several members of its executive board became ministers in the Turkish Government.[5] Aksu also founded the Diyarbakır Association in Ankara, aimed as an organization to connect the people of Diyarbakır.[5]
Professional career
Political career
He was elected a member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, representing Diyarbakir for the Motherland Party (ANAP) in 1987.[6] He became the Minister of the Interior in 1989 in the Government of Turgut Özal which he stayed also through the Government of Yilidirm Akbulut.[7] During his membership in the ANAP, he was a prominent advocate of Özals conciliatory policies dubbed as the "Politics of Four Inclinations".[5] He was again elected to parliament for Diyarbakır in the parliamentary election of 1995.[8] He then left the Motherland Party, and joined the Welfare Party (RP), for which he served as a member of the administrative board.[5] After the ban of the RP in 1998, he became a member of the Virtue Party[5] which was a predecessor of the Justice and Development Party (AKP). For the AKP, he served as the Interior Minister from 2002 to 2007[9] and became its party vice-chair in replacement of Dengir Mir Mehmet Firat in 2008.[10] In May 2019 he was assigned the post of the chair of the state-owned Vakifbank.[11]
Personal life
He is married and is the father of two children.[12]