Ayfer Yılmaz (born 1956) is a Turkish female former high-level civil servant, a politician and former government minister.

Private life

Ayfer Yılmaz was born in

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, Turkey in 1956. After completing the high school, she studied at

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graduating from the Faculty of Political Science. She is mother of one.

Civil servant

Her first occupation was deputy consultant for Economy and Trade at the Turkish Embassy in Bonn,

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. She was then assigned to the Undersecretariat of Treasury to serve as the Director General of Public Finance Department, Deputy Undersecretary, and finally as the Undersecretary, the head of the administration. Her following occupations were chairperson of the board at the Turkish branches of

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and Islamic Development Bank.

Politician

Yılmaz entered politics from the True Path Party (DYP). On the 1995 general election, she was elected into the

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as a deputy of Mersin Province. In the 1999 general election, she was re-elected. She served as

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in the 53rd (6 March 1996 – 28 June 1996) and 54th governments (28 June 1996 – 30 June 1997).

Consultant

Between 2002 and 2009, Yılmaz was the secretary general of the Strategic Research Center at the

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in Ankara.She served as the member of the advisory board of the International Relations Department at the

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Back to politics

In October 2017, Yılmaz joined the founders of the Good Party led by Meral Akşener. She is a member of the board of founders undertaking the portfolio of "International Relations".

References

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