Faruk Çelik

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Faruk Çelik (b Yusufeli, 1956) is Minister of Work and Social Security of Turkey and a Member of Parliament for Bursa of the ruling AKP.

Previously he had been a teacher and a businessman. One of the leading members of the AKP, he was made parliamentary group leader upon his election as an MP in 2002. He was made Minister of Work in 2007.

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Adultery is a crime. How can you say it is not? (during the period when the AKP was rumoured to be planning to make adultery illegal in Turkey). ^[1]