“I have been leaving the position of the Ministry of Justice, which I have been holding since July 19, 2017. I express my gratitude to our President for accepting my request of being relieved from the post, and I wish success to our new Minister of Justice, Mr. Bekir Bozdag,” Gül tweeted.
Bekir Bozdağ was appointed as the Deputy Prime Minister in the third cabinet of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in 2011.
On 26 December 2013, he was appointed as the Minister of Justice after the cabinet revision amidst the 2013 corruption scandal.
On 19 July, he became Deputy Prime Minister again in the Cabinet of Yıldırım II.
He was born on 1 April 1965 in Akdağmadeni in Yozgat Province, Turkey. After completing his higher education in Islamic theology at the Uludağ University in Bursa, he gained a master's degree in Christian history of theology at the same university.
Later, Bekir Bozdağ attended Selçuk University in Konya and graduated with a law degree. Before he entered politics, he worked as a lawyer.
He has been elected to parliament four times, in 2002, 2007, 2011 and 2015. (ILKHA)
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