Ministry of Trade (Turkey)

The Ministry of Trade (Turkish: Ticaret Bakanlığı) is a government ministry office of the Republic of Turkey, responsible for customs and trade related affairs in Turkey. The ministry is headed by Ömer Bolat.^[1]

Ministry of Trade

Ticaret Bakanlığı
Headquarters of Ministry of Trade in Ankara, Turkey.
Agency overview
Formed	8 June 2011; 13 years ago (2011-06-08)
Preceding agencies	Ministry of Economy Ministry of Customs and Trade
Jurisdiction	Government of Turkey
Headquarters	Ankara 39°54′19″N 32°45′26″E
Minister responsible	Ömer Bolat
Deputy Ministers responsible	Mahmut Gürcan Mustafa Tuzcu Özgür Volkan Ağar Sezai Uçarmak
Website	www.trade.gov.tr

The ministry was founded with the Act No. 640 by merging the Prime Ministry's Undersecretariate of Customs with some departments of the former Ministry of Industry and Trade on 8 June 2011. In the past, duties of the current ministry were carried out by the Ministry of Customs and Monopoly (1931–1983), Ministry of Finance and Customs (1983–1991) and Undersecretariate of Customs (1993–2011). The first minister of the newly established ministry became Hayati Yazıcı, who served as the undersecretary before.^[2] Between 2011 and 2018, its official name was Ministry of Customs and Trade (Turkish: Gümrük ve Ticaret Bakanlığı). It merged with Ministry of Economy in 2018 and rebranded as Ministry of Trade.^[3]