Bekir Bozdağ | |
Honorific-Suffix: | MP |
Birth Date: | 1965 4, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Akdağmadeni, Yozgat, Turkey |
Nationality: | Turkish |
Education: | Theology, |
Alma Mater: | Uludağ University, Selçuk University |
Occupation: | Politician, theologian, Lawyer |
Office1: | Minister of Justice |
Term Start1: | 29 January 2022 |
Term End1: | 4 June 2023 |
Predecessor1: | Abdulhamit Gül |
Successor1: | Yılmaz Tunç |
President1: | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan |
Term Start2: | 24 November 2015 |
Term End2: | 19 July 2017 |
Primeminister2: | Ahmet Davutoğlu Binali Yıldırım |
Predecessor2: | Kenan İpek |
Successor2: | Abdulhamit Gül |
Deputy2: | Bilal Uçar |
Term Start3: | 26 December 2013 |
Term End3: | 7 March 2015 |
Primeminister3: | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Ahmet Davutoğlu |
Predecessor3: | Sadullah Ergin |
Successor3: | Kenan İpek |
Deputy3: | Veysi Kaynak |
Office4: | Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey |
Term Start4: | 19 July 2017 |
Term End4: | 9 July 2018 |
Primeminister4: | Binali Yıldırım |
Predecessor4: | Numan Kurtulmuş |
Successor4: | Office abolished |
1Blankname4: | Serving with |
1Namedata4: | Recep Akdağ Mehmet Şimşek Hakan Çavuşoğlu Fikri Işık |
Term Start5: | 6 July 2011 |
Term End5: | 25 December 2013 |
Primeminister5: | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan |
Predecessor5: | Hayati Yazıcı |
Successor5: | Emrullah İşler |
1Blankname5: | Serving with |
1Namedata5: | Bülent Arınç Ali Babacan Beşir Atalay |
Office6: | President of the Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors |
Term Start6: | 24 November 2015 |
Predecessor6: | Kenan İpek |
Term Start7: | 26 December 2013 |
Term End7: | 7 March 2015 |
Predecessor7: | Sadullah Ergin |
Successor7: | Kenan İpek |
Term Start8: | 1 November 2015 |
Constituency8: | Yozgat (Nov 2015) |
Term Start9: | 3 November 2002 |
Term End9: | 7 June 2015 |
Constituency9: | Yozgat (2002, 2007, 2011) |
Party: | Justice and Development Party (AKP) |
Children: | 3 |
Bekir Bozdağ (born 1 April 1965) is a Turkish lawyer and politician of Kurdish origin[1] and former Minister of Justice.[2] [3] On 6 July 2011 he was appointed as the Deputy Prime Minister in the third cabinet of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.[4] On 26 December 2013, he was appointed as the Minister of Justice 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, Turkey. After completing his higher education in Islamic theology at the Uludağ University in Bursa, he obtained a master's degree in Christian history of theology at the same university. Later, Bekir Bozdağ attended Selçuk University in Konya and graduated with a law degree. Before he entered politics, he worked as a lawyer.[4]
He has been elected to parliament four times, in 2002, 2007, 2011 and 2015.[4]
He is married with three children.[4]