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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. According to some sources, he is Kurdish;[1][2][3] according to Üzeyir Tekin, he is of partial Albanian and Kurdish origin;[4] and according to Hasan Celal Güzel, a friend of Aksu family, he is of Turkish (Turkmen) origin.[5]
Abdülkadir Aksu | |
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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 | Diyarbakır, Turkey | October 12, 1944
Political 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 sufistic community of Naqshbandi tariqah.[6]
He attended high school in Diyarbakır and in 1968 he graduated with a degree in political sciences from the Ankara University.[7] During his time at the university he became a member of in the Free Thought Club which was as a counterweight to the Socialist Thought Club.[7] The Free Thought Club was to be influential in politics as several members of its executive board became ministers in the Turkish Government.[7] Aksu also founded the Diyarbakır Association in Ankara, aimed as an organization to connect the people of Diyarbakır.[7]
Since his graduation, he entered the public administration and was assigned as a Kaymakam in a variety of districts. In 1985, while being the Kaymakam of Gaziantep, he was bequested with the award of the Bureaucrat of the Year.[7]
He was elected a member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, representing Diyarbakir for the Motherland Party (ANAP) in 1987.[8] 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.[9] During his membership in the ANAP, he was a prominent advocate of Özals conciliatory policies dubbed as the "Politics of Four Inclinations".[7] He was again elected to parliament for Diyarbakır in the parliamentary election of 1995.[10] He then left the Motherland Party, and joined the Welfare Party (RP), for which he served as a member of the administrative board.[7] After the ban of the RP in 1998, he became a member of the Virtue Party[7] which was a predecessor of the Justice and Development Party (AKP). For the AKP, he served as the Interior Minister from 2002 to 2007[11] and became its party vice-chair in replacement of Dengir Mir Mehmet Firat in 2008.[12] In May 2019 he was assigned the post of the chair of the state-owned Vakifbank.[13]
He is married and is the father of two children.[14]
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