Mehmet Mehdi Eker

Mehmet Mefdi Eker.

Mehmet Mehdi Eker is Minister of Agriculture of Turkey and Member of Parliament for Diyarbakır of the ruling party, Justice and Development Party (Turkey).

A veterinarian and agro-economist he had a career as a civil servant in the ministry of agriculture before entering politics at the age of 46.

As minister of Agriculture he has had to deal with issues including:

The bird flu epidemic of 2005, in which he made a statement that it was safe to eat cooked chicken and then famously refused to do so on television.^[1]
Adjusting food control regulations to comply with EU norms, including recategorising pork and horse meat as suitable for human consumption.^[2]

References

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

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

Prime Minister

Deputy Prime Ministers

current	Bülent Arınç Ali Babacan Beşir Atalay Emrullah İşler

former	Bekir Bozdağ (now Justice minister)

Ministers

current	Ahmet Davutoğlu (Foreign Affairs) Lütfi Elvan (Transport and Communication) Cevdet Yılmaz (Development) Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu (European Union) İdris Güllüce (Environment and Urban Planning) Ömer Çelik (Culture and Tourism) Faruk Çelik (Labour and Social Security) Ayşenur İslam (Family and Social Policy) Hayati Yazıcı (Customs and Commerce) Efkan Ala (Interior) İsmet Yılmaz (National Defence) Mehmet Şimşek (Finance) Mehmet Mehdi Eker (Food, Agriculture and Animal husbandry) Nihat Zeybekci (Economy) Fikri Işık (Science, Industry and Technology) Nabi Avcı (National Education) Mehmet Müezzinoğlu (Health) Bekir Bozdağ (Justice) Akif Çağatay Kılıç (Youth and Sports) Taner Yıldız (Energy and Natural Resources) Veysel Eroğlu (Forestry and Water Affairs)

former	Binali Yıldırım (Transport and Communication) Egemen Bağış (European Union) Erdoğan Bayraktar (Environment and Urban Planning) Ertuğrul Günay (Culture and Tourism) Fatma Şahin (Family and Social Policy) İdris Naim Şahin (Interior) Muammer Güler (Interior) Zafer Çağlayan (Economy) Nihat Ergün (Science, Industry and Technology) Ömer Dinçer (National Education) Recep Akdağ (Health) Sadullah Ergin (Justice) Suat Kılıç (Youth and Sports)

Davutoğlu Cabinet (2014– )

Prime Minister	Ahmet Davutoğlu

Deputy Prime Ministers	Bülent Arınç Numan Kurtulmuş Ali Babacan Yalçın Akdoğan

Ministers	Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu (Foreign Affairs) Lütfi Elvan (Transport and Communication) Cevdet Yılmaz (Development) Volkan Bozkır (European Union) İdris Güllüce (Environment and Urban Planning) Ömer Çelik (Culture and Tourism) Faruk Çelik (Labour and Social Security) Ayşenur İslam (Family and Social Policy) Nurettin Canikli (Customs and Commerce) Efkan Ala (Interior) İsmet Yılmaz (National Defence) Mehmet Şimşek (Finance) Mehmet Mehdi Eker (Food, Agriculture and Animal husbandry) Nihat Zeybekci (Economy) Fikri Işık (Science, Industry and Technology) Nabi Avcı (National Education) Mehmet Müezzinoğlu (Health) Bekir Bozdağ (Justice) Akif Çağatay Kılıç (Youth and Sports) Taner Yıldız (Energy and Natural Resources) Veysel Eroğlu (Forestry and Water Affairs)

Italic: not in office