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]