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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 took over as Minister from Justice and Development Party politician Efkan Ala three months prior to the June 2015 general election, as required by Article 114 of the Turkish Constitution. He is, formally, of no political affiliation.


Early life and career

Öztürk was born in Çaykara, a district in
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in 1962. Graduating from
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Faculty of Political Science and Public Governance in 1986, Öztürk successfully completed an exam to become a ''
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'' (a sub-governor of a provincial district) in 1987. He learnt English at
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in the United Kingdom before beginning his term as a Kaymakam of the
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district of
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in 1990. While serving in this capacity, he was appointed as the Governor of
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in 2007, serving until 2009 where he was restationed as the Governor of Erzurum Province. Serving in this capacity until 2013, he was restationed for a second time as the Governor of
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, serving for a year until 16 September 2014. He is married and has two children.


Minister of the Interior

On 15 September 2014, he was appointed as the Undersecretary to the Interior Ministry, vacating his position as Governor of Antalya for this reason. 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, Öztürk took over from Efkan Ala as Minister of the Interior 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 Kenan İpek, who replaced Bekir Bozdağ as the
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and Feridun Bilgin, replacing Lütfi Elvan as the Transport, Maritime and Communications Minister. Despite being the Minister of the Interior, it was alleged that Efkan Ala continued as the de facto Minister despite resigning in March, working directly with President
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behind closed doors to secure necessary preparations for the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in time for the 2015 general election. Such preparations apparently included an allegedly staged operation in
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against the Kurdish separatist PKK organisation in order to increase the AKP's popularity.


Labour Day protests

On 1 May 2015, he was criticised for endorsing and committing to carry out a series of decisions made by the Governor of
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in relation to the planned
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protests in Taksim Square. The police response to Labour day protests in Turkey have been accused of being notoriously heavy-handed, with the government taking the decision to close of Taksim Square entirely in preparation for Labour Day 2015.


See also

* 62nd Government of Turkey


External links


Biography of the Minister from the Ministry of the Interior


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ozturk, Sebahattin Living people 1962 births People from Çaykara Governors of Antalya Erzurum Province Niğde Province Ministers of the interior of Turkey Istanbul University alumni