Feridun Bilgin (born 1964) is a
Turkish civil servant and politician who served as the
Minister of Transport, Maritime and Communication of
Turkey
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula in ...
from 7 March to 17 November 2015. Formerly the Undersecretary to the Ministry, Bilgin took over from the
Justice and Development Party minister
Lütfi Elvan
Lütfi Elvan (born 12 March 1962) is a Turkish politician. Elvan has served as the Minister of Finance and Treasury of Turkey from November 2020 to December 2021. He previously served as the Minister of Transport, Maritime and Communication f ...
as required by Article 114 of the
Turkish constitution
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. He was one of the founders of the newly founded
Future Party in 2019.
Early life and career
Bilgin was born in
Sivas
Sivas (Latin and Greek: ''Sebastia'', ''Sebastea'', Σεβάστεια, Σεβαστή, ) is a city in central Turkey and the seat of Sivas Province.
The city, which lies at an elevation of in the broad valley of the Kızılırmak river, is ...
in 1964 and graduated from
Istanbul Technical University
Istanbul Technical University ( tr, İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, commonly referred to as ITU or The Technical University) is an international technical university located in Istanbul, Turkey. It is the world's third-oldest technical universit ...
's Faculty of Electricity and Electronics in 1985. Between 1985 and 1987, he did a
Master's degree
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Yıldız Technical University
Yıldız Technical University ( Tr. ''Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi'', often simply referred to as YTU or Yıldız) is a prominent technical university dedicated to engineering and natural sciences as well as social sciences recently, and is one ...
Department of Electrical Engineering. In 1986, he began working at the
State Planning Organisation as an advisor to the Manager of Incentives and Implementation. He became a planning expert in 1991 and a team manager in 1992. In 1992, he became a branch manager of the Incentives and Implementation department of the Treasury and Foreign Trade Undersecretariat. Between 1996 and 1999, he was the Economic Advisor to the Turkish Embassy in the
Republic of Macedonia
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. In 2003, he became the interim Manager of the Incentives and Implementation Department of the Treasury Undersecretariat, only to be fully confirmed in 2007. Between 2010 and 2014, Bilgin was the deputy Undersecretary to the Treasury and became the Undersecretary to the Minister of Transport, Maritime and Communication after the retirement of his predecessor,
Habip Soluk.
Minister of Transport
With the Constitution requiring that the serving partisan Minister should vacate his position to his or her Undersecretary at least three months before a general election, Bilgin took over from Lütfi Elvan as Minister on 7 March 2015 and is due to serve until a new government is formed after the election.
The other ministers who replaced partisan ministers due to the constitutional requirement were
Sebahattin Öztürk, who replaced
Efkan Ala as the
Minister of the Interior
An interior minister (sometimes called a minister of internal affairs or minister of home affairs) is a cabinet official position that is responsible for internal affairs, such as public security, civil registration and identification, emergency ...
and
Kenan İpek
Kenan İpek (born 5 October 1959) is a Turkish legal prosecutor and judge who served as the Minister of Justice of Turkey from 7 March to 17 November 2015. Having previously served as the Undersecretary to the Justice Ministry, İpek succeeded ...
, replacing
Bekir Bozdağ
Bekir Bozdağ (born 1 April 1965) is a Turkish lawyer and politician of Kurdish origin and current Minister of Justice.http://www.rudaw.net/turkish/middleeast/turkey/060520162 On 6 July 2011 he was appointed as the Deputy Prime Minister in the ...
as the
Justice Minister
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.
See also
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62nd Government of Turkey
*
Minister of Transport, Maritime and Communication
References
External links
Message by the Minister of Transport, Maritime and CommunicationBiography of the Minister of Transport, Maritime and Communication
1964 births
Living people
People from Sivas
Ministers of Transport and Communications of Turkey
Members of the 63rd government of Turkey
Istanbul Technical University alumni
Yıldız Technical University alumni
Turkish electrical engineers
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