Bekir Bozdağ (born 1 April 1965) is a Turkish lawyer and politician of Kurdish origin and current

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.http://www.rudaw.net/turkish/middleeast/turkey/060520162 On 6 July 2011 he was appointed as the

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in the third cabinet of Prime Minister

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. On 26 December 2013, he was appointed as the

after the cabinet revision amidst the 2013 corruption scandal. On 19 July, he became Deputy Prime Minister again in the Cabinet of Yıldırım II. He was born on 1 April 1965 in Akdağmadeni in Yozgat Province,

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. After completing his higher education in

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at the Uludağ University in

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, he gained a

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in Christian

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at the same university. Later, Bekir Bozdağ attended Selçuk University in

Konya Konya () is a major city in central Turkey, on the southwestern edge of the Central Anatolian Plateau, and is the capital of Konya Province. During antiquity and into Seljuk times it was known as Iconium (), although the Seljuks also called it D ...

and graduated with a law degree. Before he entered politics, he worked as a lawyer. He has been elected to

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four times, in

2002 File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains East Timor independence, indepe ...

2007 File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple Inc., Apple's first iPhone (1st generation), iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakis ...

2011 File:2011 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: a protester partaking in Occupy Wall Street heralds the beginning of the Occupy movement; protests against Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, who was killed that October; a young man celebrates ...

and

2015 File:2015 Events Collage new.png, From top left, clockwise: Civil service in remembrance of November 2015 Paris attacks; Germanwings Flight 9525 was purposely crashed into the French Alps; the rubble of residences in Kathmandu following the April ...

. He is married and has three children.

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*https://twitter.com/bybekirbozdag Living people 1965 births People from Akdağmadeni Bursa Uludağ University alumni Selçuk University alumni Turkish theologians 20th-century Turkish lawyers Turkish Kurdish politicians Deputies of Yozgat Justice and Development Party (Turkey) politicians Deputy Prime Ministers of Turkey Ministers of Justice of Turkey Members of the 26th Parliament of Turkey Members of the 24th Parliament of Turkey Members of the 23rd Parliament of Turkey Members of the 22nd Parliament of Turkey Members of the 64th government of Turkey Members of the 65th government of Turkey Members of the 66th government of Turkey {{Turkey-politician-stub