| Abdüllatif Şener | |
| Parliament: | Turkish |
| Office: | Leader of the Turkey Party |
| Term Start: | 25 May 2009 |
| Term End: | 27 August 2012 |
| Predecessor: | Founded |
| Successor: | Closed |
| Office2: | Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey |
| Term Start2: | 18 November 2002 |
| Term End2: | 29 August 2007 |
| Primeminister2: | Abdullah Gül Recep Tayyip Erdoğan |
| Predecessor2: | Devlet Bahçeli Şükrü Sina Gürel Mesut Yılmaz |
| Successor2: | Cemil Çiçek Hayati Yazıcı Nazım Ekren |
| Office3: | Minister of Finance of Turkey |
| Term Start3: | 28 June 1996 |
| Term End3: | 30 June 1997 |
| Primeminister3: | Necmettin Erbakan |
| Predecessor3: | Lütfullah Kayalar |
| Successor3: | Zekeriya Temizel |
| Term Start4: | 7 July 2018 |
| Term End4: | 7 April 2023 |
| Constituency4: | Konya (2018) |
| Term Start5: | 6 November 1991 |
| Term End5: | 23 July 2007 |
| Constituency5: | Sivas (1991, 1995, 1999, 2002) |
| Birth Place: | Gürün, Sivas Province, Turkey |
| Nationality: | Turkish (Karachay) |
| Party: | CHP (2018-2023) TP (2009-2012) AKP (2001-2009) FP (1998-2001) RP (1991-1998) |
| Alma Mater: | Ankara University, Gazi University |
| Occupation: | Politician |
| Profession: | Finance, academic |
| Honorific Suffix: | MP |
Abdüllatif Şener (born 1954) is a Turkish politician. He was Minister of Finance of Turkey from 1996 to 1997 and Deputy Prime Minister from 2002 to 2007, under Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
Şener was born in Gürün, Sivas Province in Turkey. He graduated from the School of Political Sciences at Ankara University. He earned his PhD degree from Gazi University in Ankara. He lectured on finance at Gazi University and Hacettepe University, before he served as a controller in the Department of Revenues within the Ministry of Finance.
Şener entered politics and was elected in 1991 as deputy of Sivas Province from the Islamist Welfare Party (Turkish: Refah Partisi, abbreviated RP). He was Minister of Finance from 1996 to 1997. Following the ban of the Welfare Party in 1998, he became a member of the newly established Virtue Party (Turkish: Fazilet Partisi, abbreviated FP), which was also banned after three years in 2001. He was co-founder of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in 2001. He was elected to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey as deputy of Sivas Province, and he served under the AKP government as Deputy Prime Minister from 2002 to 2007.
He did not run for a seat in parliament in the 2007 general elections. After leaving the AK Party, he formed a new party; it was officially announced on 27 May 2009 and named the Turkey Party (Türkiye Partisi).[1]
Şener announced that the Turkey Party was officially closed on 27 August 2012 due to difficulties in maintaining its political goals outside of parliament.[2]
In an interview with Halk TV, Şener strongly condemned the AK Party's handling of the 2013 protests in Turkey.