Nazım Ekren (born December 4, 1956 in
Istanbul
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) was a Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey
responsible for economic affairs.
Political career
He was appointed to his position in August 2007, succeeding
Abdüllatif Şener
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Life and career
Şener was born in Gürü ...
. Ekren is a former professor of banking and international finance.
Ekren graduated in economics from the
Bursa
( grc-gre, Προῦσα, Proûsa, Latin: Prusa, ota, بورسه, Arabic:بورصة) is a city in northwestern Turkey and the administrative center of Bursa Province. The fourth-most populous city in Turkey and second-most populous in t ...
Academy of Economics and Finance (Iktisadi ve Ticari Ilimler Akdemisi), and then received a
Master's degree
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from
Uludağ University
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in Bursa, going on to a career as an academic in the field of economics at
Marmara University
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The university is named after the Sea of Marmara and was founded as a university in 1982. However, it was created in 1883 under the name of ''H ...
in Istanbul.
Ekren was a founding member of
Tayyip Erdoğan's
Justice and Development Party (AKP). He was elected to the parliament in 2007 as deputy of