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The following is a list of Ministers of the Interior of Turkey. ;", , , İsmail Hakkı Akdoğan , 20 February 1965 , 31 July 1965 , Nation Party , - ! style="background:saddlebrown;", , , İzzet Gener , 31 July 1965 , 27 October 1965 , Nation Party , - ! style="background:magenta;", , , Mehmet Faruk Sükan , 27 October 1965 , 1 August 1969 , Justice Party , - ! style="background:magenta;", , , Salih Ragıp Üner , 1 August 1969 , 3 November 1969 , Justice Party , - ! style="background:magenta;", , , Haldun Menteşeoğlu , 3 November 1969 , 26 March 1971 , Justice Party , - ! style="background:;", , , Hamdi Ömeroğlu , 26 March 1971 , 11 December 1971 ,
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, - ! style="background:;", , , Ferit Kubat , 11 December 1971 , 15 April 1973 ,
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, - ! style="background:;", , , Mukadder Öztekin , 15 April 1973 , 26 January 1974 ,
Independent Independent or Independents may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Artist groups * Independents (artist group), a group of modernist painters based in the New Hope, Pennsylvania, area of the United States during the early 1930s * Independ ...
, - ! style="background:black;", , , Oğuzhan Asiltürk , 26 January 1974 , 17 November 1974 ,
National Salvation Party The National Salvation Party ( tr, Millî Selâmet Partisi, MSP) was an Islamist political party in Turkey, founded on 11 October 1972 as the successor of the banned National Order Party (''Millî Nizam Partisi'', MNP). The party was formed by a ...
, - ! style="background:;", , , Mukadder Öztekin , 17 November 1974 , 31 March 1975 ,
Independent Independent or Independents may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Artist groups * Independents (artist group), a group of modernist painters based in the New Hope, Pennsylvania, area of the United States during the early 1930s * Independ ...
, - ! style="background:black;", , , Oğuzhan Asiltürk , 31 March 1975 , 11 April 1977 ,
National Salvation Party The National Salvation Party ( tr, Millî Selâmet Partisi, MSP) was an Islamist political party in Turkey, founded on 11 October 1972 as the successor of the banned National Order Party (''Millî Nizam Partisi'', MNP). The party was formed by a ...
, - ! style="background:magenta;", , , Ahmet Sabahattin Özbek , 11 April 1977 , 21 June 1977 , Justice Party , - ! style="background:;", , ,
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, 21 June 1977 , 21 July 1977 ,
Republican People's Party The Republican People's Party ( tr, Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi, , acronymized as CHP ) is a Kemalist and social-democratic political party in Turkey which currently stands as the main opposition party. It is also the oldest political party ...
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Korkut Özal Korkut Özal (29 May 1929 – 2 November 2016) was a Turkish engineer and politician. He was the brother of Turkish President Turgut Özal and . His cause of death in 2016 are respiratory and circulatory failure. Academic career Korkut Özal s ...
, 21 July 1977 , 5 January 1978 ,
National Salvation Party The National Salvation Party ( tr, Millî Selâmet Partisi, MSP) was an Islamist political party in Turkey, founded on 11 October 1972 as the successor of the banned National Order Party (''Millî Nizam Partisi'', MNP). The party was formed by a ...
, - ! style="background:;", , , İrfan Özaydınlı , 5 January 1978 , 2 January 1979 ,
Republican People's Party The Republican People's Party ( tr, Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi, , acronymized as CHP ) is a Kemalist and social-democratic political party in Turkey which currently stands as the main opposition party. It is also the oldest political party ...
, - ! style="background:;", , , Orhan Eyüboğlu
, 2 January 1979 , 16 January 1979 ,
Republican People's Party The Republican People's Party ( tr, Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi, , acronymized as CHP ) is a Kemalist and social-democratic political party in Turkey which currently stands as the main opposition party. It is also the oldest political party ...
, - ! style="background:;", , , Hasan Fehmi Güneş , 16 January 1979 , 5 October 1979 ,
Republican People's Party The Republican People's Party ( tr, Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi, , acronymized as CHP ) is a Kemalist and social-democratic political party in Turkey which currently stands as the main opposition party. It is also the oldest political party ...
, - ! style="background:;", , , Vecdi İlhan , 8 October 1979 , 12 November 1979 ,
Republican People's Party The Republican People's Party ( tr, Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi, , acronymized as CHP ) is a Kemalist and social-democratic political party in Turkey which currently stands as the main opposition party. It is also the oldest political party ...
, - ! style="background:magenta;", , , Mustafa Gülcügil , 12 November 1979 , 21 July 1980 , Justice Party , - ! style="background:magenta;", , , Orhan Eren , 4 August 1980 , 12 September 1980 , Justice Party , - ! style="background:;", , , Selahattin Çetiner , 20 September 1980 , 13 December 1983 ,
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Ali Tanrıyar Ali Tanrıyar (14 March 1914 – 25 May 2017) was a Turkish internist, politician, Interior Minister of Turkey, chairman of the sports club Galatasaray S.K.. and centenarian, having lived to 103. Ali Tanrıyar was born in Ottoman Greece in 191 ...
, 13 December 1983 , 26 October 1984 , Motherland Party , - ! style="background:;", , ,
Yıldırım Akbulut Yıldırım Akbulut (; 2 September 1935 – 14 April 2021) was a Turkish people, Turkish politician, who was a leader of the Anavatan Partisi, Motherland Party (ANAP), the List of Prime Ministers of Turkey, Prime Minister of Turkey, and twice the ...
, 26 October 1984 , 16 September 1987 , Motherland Party , - ! style="background:;", , , Ahmet Selçuk , 16 September 1987 , 21 December 1987 , Motherland Party , - ! style="background:;", , ,
Mustafa Kalemli Mustafa Kalemli (born March 26, 1943) is a Turkish physician and politician, who served as government minister and Speaker of the Turkish Grand National Assembly. Early life and career Mustafa Kalemli was born in Tavşanlı, Kütahya Province, ...
, 21 December 1987 , 30 March 1989 , Motherland Party , - ! style="background:;", , ,
Abdülkadir Aksu Abdülkadir Aksu ( ; ; born 1944, Diyarbakır) is a Turkish politician from Diyarbakır. According to some sources, he is Kurdish; according to Üzeyir Tekin, he is of partial Albanian and Kurdish origin; and according to Hasan Celal Güzel, a fr ...
, 30 March 1989 , 23 June 1991 , Motherland Party , - ! style="background:;", , ,
Mustafa Kalemli Mustafa Kalemli (born March 26, 1943) is a Turkish physician and politician, who served as government minister and Speaker of the Turkish Grand National Assembly. Early life and career Mustafa Kalemli was born in Tavşanlı, Kütahya Province, ...
, 23 June 1991 , 26 August 1991 , Motherland Party , - ! style="background:White;", , ,
Sabahattin Çakmakoğlu Sabahattin Çakmakoğlu (born 25 November 1930) is a Turkish bureaucrat and politician who served as the Minister of National Defense from 1999 to 2002. He was the Nationalist Movement Party presidential candidate for the 2007 presidential ele ...
, 29 August 1991 , 20 November 1991 , Neutral
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İsmet Sezgin İsmet Sezgin (6 January 1928 – 7 December 2016) was a Turkish politician who served as the Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey and Minister of National Defense from 1997 to 1999, as the Speaker of the Grand National Assembly in 1995, as the Minist ...
, 21 November 1991 , 25 June 1993 ,
True Path Party The True Path Party ( tr, Doğru Yol Partisi, DYP) was a centre-right political party in Turkey, active from 1983 to 2007. For most of its history, the party's central figure was Süleyman Demirel, a former Prime Minister of Turkey who previously ...
, - ! style="background:purple;", , , Beytullah Mehmet Gazioğlu , 25 June 1993 , 24 October 1993 ,
True Path Party The True Path Party ( tr, Doğru Yol Partisi, DYP) was a centre-right political party in Turkey, active from 1983 to 2007. For most of its history, the party's central figure was Süleyman Demirel, a former Prime Minister of Turkey who previously ...
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Nahit Menteşe Nahit Menteşe (born 1932) is a Turkish politician who served in various ministerial posts in the 1960s and 1970s, and again in the 1990s, including Minister of Interior 1993 to 1996. He was briefly Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey in 1996 under ...
, 24 October 1993 , 31 October 1995 ,
True Path Party The True Path Party ( tr, Doğru Yol Partisi, DYP) was a centre-right political party in Turkey, active from 1983 to 2007. For most of its history, the party's central figure was Süleyman Demirel, a former Prime Minister of Turkey who previously ...
, - ! style="background:White;", , , Teoman Ünüsan , 31 October 1995 , 6 March 1996 , Neutral
(Bureaucrat) , - ! style="background:;", , , Ülkü Güney , 6 March 1996 , 28 June 1996 , Motherland Party , - ! style="background:purple;", , ,
Mehmet Ağar Mehmet Kemal Ağar (born on 30 October 1951) is a Turkish former police chief, politician, government minister and leader of the Democratic Party. He was a police officer who rose to General Director of the General Directorate of Security (effect ...
, 28 June 1996 , 8 November 1996 ,
True Path Party The True Path Party ( tr, Doğru Yol Partisi, DYP) was a centre-right political party in Turkey, active from 1983 to 2007. For most of its history, the party's central figure was Süleyman Demirel, a former Prime Minister of Turkey who previously ...
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Meral Akşener Meral Akşener (née Gürer, ; born 18 July 1956) is a Turkish politician, teacher, historian and academic. She served as Minister of the Interior and was a vice-speaker of the Grand National Assembly. She also founded and is leader of the Good Pa ...
, 8 November 1996 , 30 June 1997 ,
True Path Party The True Path Party ( tr, Doğru Yol Partisi, DYP) was a centre-right political party in Turkey, active from 1983 to 2007. For most of its history, the party's central figure was Süleyman Demirel, a former Prime Minister of Turkey who previously ...
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Murat Başesgioğlu Murat Başesgioğlu (born 1955) is a Turkish politician who was a Minister of State of Turkey and Member of the Turkish Parliament for Kastamonu for the ruling Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (AK Party). Biography Başesgioğlu was born in Kastamon ...
, 30 June 1997 , 4 August 1998 ,
True Path Party The True Path Party ( tr, Doğru Yol Partisi, DYP) was a centre-right political party in Turkey, active from 1983 to 2007. For most of its history, the party's central figure was Süleyman Demirel, a former Prime Minister of Turkey who previously ...
, - ! style="background:;", , , Kutlu Aktaş , 4 August 1998 , 11 January 1999 , Motherland Party , - ! style="background:White;", , , Cahit Bayar , 11 January 1999 , 28 May 1999 , Neutral
(Bureaucrat) , - ! style="background:;", , , Sadettin Tantan , 28 May 1999 , 5 June 2001 , Motherland Party , - ! style="background:;", , , Rüştü Kazım Yücelen , 5 June 2001 , 5 August 2002 , Motherland Party , - ! style="background:White;", , , Muzaffer Ecemiş , 5 August 2002 , 18 November 2002 , Neutral
(Bureaucrat) , - ! style="background:orange;", , ,
Abdülkadir Aksu Abdülkadir Aksu ( ; ; born 1944, Diyarbakır) is a Turkish politician from Diyarbakır. According to some sources, he is Kurdish; according to Üzeyir Tekin, he is of partial Albanian and Kurdish origin; and according to Hasan Celal Güzel, a fr ...
, 18 November 2002 , 8 May 2007 ,
Justice and Development Party Justice and Development Party may refer to several political parties, the best-known ones being: * Justice and Development Party (Morocco) * Justice and Development Party (Turkey) Justice and Development Party may also refer to: * Justice and Dev ...
, - ! style="background:White;", , , Osman Güneş , 8 May 2007 , 29 August 2007 , Neutral
(Bureaucrat) , - ! style="background:orange;", , ,
Beşir Atalay Beşir Atalay (; born 1947) is a Turkish people, Turkish politician who was Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey in the government of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan from 2011 to 2014. Previously he was minister of interior from 28 August 2007 to 14 July 2011. ...
, 29 August 2007 , 8 March 2011 ,
Justice and Development Party Justice and Development Party may refer to several political parties, the best-known ones being: * Justice and Development Party (Morocco) * Justice and Development Party (Turkey) Justice and Development Party may also refer to: * Justice and Dev ...
, - ! style="background:White;", , , Osman Güneş , 8 March 2011 , 6 July 2011 , Neutral
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İdris Naim Şahin İdris Naim Şahin (born 1 June 1956, Ünye, Ordu, Turkey) is a Turkish politician who was elected to the Turkish Grand National Assembly in 2002, representing Istanbul. He was appointed to the Ministry of Internal Affairs on 6 July 2011 by Pri ...
, 6 July 2011 , 24 January 2013 ,
Justice and Development Party Justice and Development Party may refer to several political parties, the best-known ones being: * Justice and Development Party (Morocco) * Justice and Development Party (Turkey) Justice and Development Party may also refer to: * Justice and Dev ...
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Muammer Güler Muammer Güler (born 21 March 1949) is a Turkish politician. He is a member of parliament from the Justice and Development Party (AKP). He was formerly the Governor of Istanbul Province and the Minister of the Interior under Prime Minister Rece ...
, 24 January 2013 , 25 December 2013 ,
Justice and Development Party Justice and Development Party may refer to several political parties, the best-known ones being: * Justice and Development Party (Morocco) * Justice and Development Party (Turkey) Justice and Development Party may also refer to: * Justice and Dev ...
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Efkan Ala Efkan Ala (born 21 February 1965) is a Turkish politician and former civil servant who served as the Minister of the Interior from November 2015 to August 2016;. He previously held the same post from 2013 to June 2015 despite not being a member ...
, 25 December 2013 , 7 March 2015 ,
Justice and Development Party Justice and Development Party may refer to several political parties, the best-known ones being: * Justice and Development Party (Morocco) * Justice and Development Party (Turkey) Justice and Development Party may also refer to: * Justice and Dev ...
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Sebahattin Öztürk Sebahattin Öztürk (born 1 July 1962) is a Turkish politician, civil servant and bureaucrat who served as the Minister of the Interior of Turkey between March and August 2015. Previously the Undersecretary to the Interior Ministry since 2014, he ...
, 7 March 2015 , 28 August 2015 , Neutral
(Bureaucrat) , - ! style="background:;", , , Selami Altınok , 28 August 2015 , 24 November 2015 ,
Independent Independent or Independents may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Artist groups * Independents (artist group), a group of modernist painters based in the New Hope, Pennsylvania, area of the United States during the early 1930s * Independ ...
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Efkan Ala Efkan Ala (born 21 February 1965) is a Turkish politician and former civil servant who served as the Minister of the Interior from November 2015 to August 2016;. He previously held the same post from 2013 to June 2015 despite not being a member ...
, 24 November 2015 , 31 August 2016 ,
Justice and Development Party Justice and Development Party may refer to several political parties, the best-known ones being: * Justice and Development Party (Morocco) * Justice and Development Party (Turkey) Justice and Development Party may also refer to: * Justice and Dev ...
, - ! style="background:orange;", , ,
Süleyman Soylu Süleyman Soylu (; born 21 November 1969) is a Turkish politician. He is a deputy chairman of the Justice and Development Party who currently serves as the Minister of the Interior since 31 August 2016. He previously served as the Minister of L ...
, 31 August 2016 , ''Incumbent'' ,
Justice and Development Party Justice and Development Party may refer to several political parties, the best-known ones being: * Justice and Development Party (Morocco) * Justice and Development Party (Turkey) Justice and Development Party may also refer to: * Justice and Dev ...


See also

*
Ministry of the Interior (Turkey) The Ministry of Interior or Ministry of the Interior or Interior Ministry ( tr, İçişleri Bakanlığı lit. Ministry of Internal Affairs) is a government ministry of the Republic of Turkey, responsible for interior security affairs in Turkey. ...


References


External links


Turkish ministries, etc – Rulers.org
{{Ministries of Turkey Ministers of the Interior Interior Ministry of the Interior (Turkey)