Şükrü Sina Gürel

Şükrü Sina Gürel (born 1 January 1950) is a Turkish diplomat and political figure who served as the nation's foreign minister in mid-2002.

Şükrü Sina Gürel
Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey
In office 9 July 2002 – 18 November 2002
Prime Minister	Bülent Ecevit
Served with	Mesut Yılmaz Devlet Bahçeli
Preceded by	Hüsamettin Özkan
Succeeded by	Mehmet Ali Şahin
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office 12 July 2002 – 18 November 2002
Prime Minister	Bülent Ecevit
Preceded by	İsmail Cem
Succeeded by	Abdullah Gül
Minister of State responsible for Customs
In office 11 January 1999 – 28 May 1999
Prime Minister	Bülent Ecevit
Preceded by	Rifat Serdaroğlu
Succeeded by	Mehmet Keçeciler
Member of the Grand National Assembly
In office 24 December 1995 – 3 November 2002
Constituency	İzmir (II) (1995, 1999)
Personal details
Born	(1950-01-01) 1 January 1950 (age 75) İzmir Turkey
Political party	Democratic Left (1991-2007) Republican People's Party (2007-2022) Victory Party (2022-present)
Alma mater	Robert College Ankara University

Biography

A native of İzmir and a member of the Democratic Left Party (DSP), Gürel represented his country at the Council of Europe from 22 April 1996 to 26 January 1998. He became foreign minister following the resignation of his predecessor, İsmail Cem on 10 July 2002. Later in the year he ceded the office to Yaşar Yakış. Gürel returned to active politics by joining the Victory Party on 19 April 2022.^[1]

He is director of foreign affairs at Victory Party's board.^[2]

Bibliography

• Tarihsel Boyutları İçinde: TÜRK - YUNAN İLİŞKİLERİ (1821 - 1993) (Turkish for Turkish-Greek relations), Ümit Yayıncılık, Ankara, 1993. Also translated in Greek (from the original Turkish) in 2008 as Οι Τουρκο-Ελληνικές σχέσεις (1821 - 1993) by Παντελής Τουλουμάκος (Pandelis Touloumakos).