Kemal Unakıtan

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Kemal Unakıtan (born February 14, 1946 in Edirne, Turkey) was the Minister of Finance of Turkey from November 2002 to May 2009 and a Member of Parliament for Istanbul of the Justice and Development Party.

He was formerly a board member of the Family Finance Group.

In his time as minister of finance he has presided over a number of situations primarily the Treasury's need to raise funds (!) in a time when Turkey has a large national debt and is failing to collect taxes to cover it. Unakıtan has therefore

sold forestry land to raise funds for the treasury
raised fuel duties and other indirect taxation plus
extra duties and payments such as his "permanent earthquake fund"

On March 7, 2008, Unakıtan received the Finance Minister of the Year Award from the business magazine The Banker.^[1]

Books

Nedim Şener (2005), Fırsatlar Ülkesinde Bir Kemal Abi (A Kemal Abi in A Land of Opportunities)

References

↑ "Finance Minister of the Year: Kemal Unakitan". The Banker. 2008-01-02. Retrieved 2008-01-02.

Political offices
Preceded by Sümer Oral	Minister of Finance of Turkey Nov 19, 2002–May 1, 2009	Succeeded by Mehmet Şimşek

v t e Cabinet of Prime Minister Abdullah Gül (2002–2003)

Cabinet

Deputy Prime Ministers	Mehmet Ali Şahin Abdüllatif Şener Ertuğrul Yalçınbayır

Minister of State	Mehmet Aydın Beşir Atalay Ali Babacan Kürşad Tüzmen

Minister of Justice	Cemil Çiçek

Minister of National Defense	Mehmet Vecdi Gönül

Minister of the Interior	Abdülkadir Aksu

Minister of Foreign Affairs	Yaşar Yakış

Minister of Finance	Kemal Unakıtan

Minister of National Education	Erkan Mumcu

Minister of Public Works and Settlement	Zeki Ergezen

Minister of Health	Recep Akdağ

Minister of Transport and Communication	Binali Yıldırım

Minister of Agriculture	Sami Güçlü

Minister of Labour and Social Security	Murat Başesgioğlu

Minister of Industry and Commerce	Ali Coşkun

Minister of Energy and Natural Resources	Mehmet Hilmi Güler

Minister of Culture	Hüseyin Çelik

Minister of Tourism	Güldal Akşit

Minister of Environment	İmdat Sütlüoğlu

Minister of Forestry	Osman Pepe

v t e Erdoğan Cabinet I (2003–2007)

Abdullah Gül^D Mehmet Ali Şahin^D Abdüllatif Şener^D Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Ali Babacan^S Güldal Akşit^S Nimet Çubukçu^SE Mehmet Aydın^S Kürşad Tüzmen^S Beşir Atalay^S Cemil Çiçek Fahri Kasırga^E Mehmet Vecdi Gönül Abdülkadir Aksu Osman Güneş^E Kemal Unakıtan Hüseyin Çelik Zeki Ergezen Faruk Nafız Özak^C Recep Akdağ Binali Yıldırım İsmet Yılmaz^E Sami Güçlü Mehmet Mehdi Eker^C Murat Başesgioğlu Ali Coşkun Mehmet Hilmi Güler Erkan Mumcu Atilla Koç^C Osman Pepe

D: Deputy Prime Minister; Bold: Prime Minister of Turkey; S: State Minister; C: served from 2005; E: served from 2007

v t e Erdoğan Cabinet II (2007–2011)

Cemil Çiçek^D Hayati Yazıcı^D Bülent Arınç^DC Nazım Ekren^D Ali Babacan^DC Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Mehmet Aydın^S Kürşad Tüzmen^S Mehmet Zafer Çağlayan^SC Nimet Çubukçu^S Selma Aliye Kavaf^SC Cevdet Yılmaz^S Mustafa Sait Yazıcıoğlu^S Faruk Çelik^SC Murat Başesgioğlu^S Faruk Nafız Özak^SC Egemen Bağış^SC Hayati Yazıcı^S Mehmet Ali Şahin Sadullah Ergin^C Sadullah Ergin Mehmet Vecdi Gönül Beşir Atalay Ali Babacan Ahmet Davutoğlu^C Kemal Unakıtan Mehmet Şimşek^C Hüseyin Çelik Nimet Çubukçu^C Faruk Nafız Özak Mustafa Demir^C Recep Akdağ Binali Yıldırım Mehmet Mehdi Eker Faruk Çelik Ömer Dinçer^C Mehmet Zafer Çağlayan Nihat Ergün^C Mehmet Hilmi Güler Taner Yıldız^C Ertuğrul Günay Veysel Eroğlu

D: Deputy Prime Minister; Bold: Prime Minister of Turkey; S: State Minister; C: served from 2009

Persondata
Name	Unakitan, Kemal
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Short description	Turkish politician
Date of birth	February 14, 1946
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Date of death
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