The Ministry of Trade ( tr, Ticaret Bakanlığı) is a government ministry office of the

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, responsible for customs and trade related affairs in Turkey. The ministry is headed by

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. 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 Hayati Yazıcı (b. 23 May 1952, Çayeli, Rize) is a Turkish lawyer and politician. He served as Turkey's Minister of Customs and Trade. Biography Hayati Yazıcı graduated in 1975 from the School of Law at Istanbul University. Starting of 1 ...

, who served as the undersecretary before. Between 2011 and 2018, its official name was Ministry of Customs and Trade ( tr, Gümrük ve Ticaret Bakanlığı). It merged with

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in 2018 and rebranded as Ministry of Trade.

References

Turkey, Customs and Trade 2011 establishments in Turkey Customs services {{Turkey-stub