Numan Kurtulmuş
| Numan Kurtulmuş Ph.D. | |
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| Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey | |
| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office 29 August 2014 | |
| Prime Minister | Ahmet Davutoğlu |
| Serving with | Yalçın Akdoğan Bülent Arınç Ali Babacan |
| Preceded by | Emrullah İşler |
| Deputy leader of the Justice and Development Party | |
| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office 04 September 2012 | |
| Leader | Ahmet Davutoğlu (2014-present) Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (2001-2014) |
| Leader of the People's Voice Party | |
| In office 1 November 2010 – 19 September 2012 | |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Position abolished |
| Leader of the Felicity Party | |
| In office 26 October 2008 – 17 October 2010 | |
| Preceded by | Recai Kutan |
| Succeeded by | Necmettin Erbakan |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1959 Ünye, Ordu Province, Turkey |
| Nationality | Turkish |
| Political party | FP SP HAS Parti AKP |
| Spouse(s) | Sevgi Kurtulmuş |
| Alma mater | Istanbul University |
| Religion | Sunni Islam |
| Website | numankurtulmus.com.tr/ |
Prof. Dr. Numan Kurtulmuş (born 1959) is a Turkish politician.
Personal life
Kurtulmuş was born in Ünye district of Ordu Province. His grandfather was a major in the Turkish army who fought in the Turkish War of Independence. He is of Georgian descent by his grandmother.[1] Kurtulmuş is married, and is a father of three children. His wife Sevgi Kurtulmuş is an academician. He is fluent in English and his favorite football team is Fenerbahçe.
Academic career
Kurtulmus received his bachelor’s and master’s degree at Istanbul University's School of Business Administration. He had been at Cornell University as a visiting researcher, during his dissertation work at Istanbul University. Kurtulmus obtained his PhD in economics in 1992. He became Associate Professor in 1994 at Istanbul University, Faculty of Economics.
He has authored numerous articles and two books, entitled “Post-Industrial Transformation” and “The Japanese Human Resource Management”. He lectured at the Istanbul University's School of Economics on Social Policy, Labor Economics and Human Resources Management. He was promoted to the rank of professorship in 2004.
Political career
In 1998, Kurtulmuş became Istanbul provincial head of the Virtue Party (FP) and a member of the party’s General Administrative Board. Later he served as Istanbul Provincial head of Virtue Party and deputy chair.
Kurtulmuş was elected for the chair of the Felicity Party (SP) at the Third Ordinary Congress of the Party on 26 October 2008. After a rift developed with the followers of former FP leader and ex Prime Minister Erbakan, signatures of majority of the delegates asked for renewal of the congres and sacking of Kurtulmuş. Refusing this ended up in court and court ruled that party administration should be transferred from his leadership to a board of trustees, after the ruling he had to resign from that position on 1 October 2010.[2]
On November 1, 2010, Kurtulmuş founded a new party, the People's Voice Party (Halkın Sesi Partisi), of which he was elected leader on November 28, 2010.[3] In September 2012, two-year-old conservative-oriented People's Voice Party (HSP) dissolved itself and joined the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) with a majority of its delegates’ votes.[4]
References
- ↑ Çalık, Mustafa (06-05-2014). "Ünye ve Ordu çok şey kazanacak". istanbulunyehaber (in Turkish). Retrieved 1 September 2014. Check date values in:
|date=(help) - ↑ "Kurtulmuş resigns as Saadet leader in Turkey". Hürriyet Daily News. 1 October 2010. Retrieved 1 October 2010.
- ↑ "Kurtulmuş confirmed as first leader of Turkish party HSP". Hürriyet Daily News. 28 November 2010. Retrieved 12 December 2010.
- ↑ HSP dissolves itself as its leader plans to join the ruling party, Hürriyet Daily News
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