Taner Yıldız Explained

Taner Yıldız
Honorific-Suffix:MP
Nationality:Turkish
Primeminister:Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Ahmet Davutoğlu
Term Start:1 May 2009
Term End:28 August 2015
Predecessor:Mehmet Hilmi Güler
Successor:Ali Rıza Alaboyun
Office1:Member of the Grand National Assembly
Term Start1:1 November 2015
Constituency1:Kayseri (Nov 2015, 2018)
Term Start2:19 November 2002
Term End2:7 June 2015
Constituency2:Kayseri (2002, 2007, 2011)
Birth Date:3 April 1962
Birth Place:Devecipınar, Boğazlıyan, Yozgat Province, Turkey
Alma Mater:Istanbul Technical University
Profession:Politician, electrical engineer
Children:4
Party:Justice and Development Party (AKP)

Taner Yıldız (born 3 April 1962 in Devecipınar, Boğazlıyan, Yozgat Province) is a Turkish politician. He is a member of the Justice and Development Party and served as the Minister of Energy and Natural Resources between 2009 and 2015.[1]

Taner Yıldız graduated from the Istanbul Technical University as an electrical engineer and worked for the Kayseri Electricity Generation Company. He was elected to the Parliament in 2002. Yıldız served as an energy adviser to the prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. On 1 May 2009, after a reshuffle of the cabinet, he took the post of Minister of Energy and Natural Resources.[1]

Yıldız is married and has four children.[1]

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  1. Web site: Türkiye Büyük Millet Meclisi 23. Dönem Milletvekili. Taner Yıldız (Members of the 23 Grand National Assembly of Turkey. Taner Yıldız) . . Turkish . 2010-01-08 .