Mehmet Müezzinoğlu

Mehmet Müezzinoğlu
MP
Minister of Health
Assumed office
24 January 2013
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Ahmet Davutoğlu
Preceded by Recep Akdağ
Member of the Grand National Assembly
Assumed office
22 July 2007
Constituency İstanbul (III) (2007)
Edirne (2011)
Bursa (June 2015, Nov 2015)
Personal details
Born (1955-01-09) 9 January 1955
Komotini, Greece
Political party Welfare Party (Before 1997)
Virtue Party (1997–2001)
Justice and Development Party (2001–present)
Alma mater Istanbul University
Cabinet 61st, 62nd, 63rd, 64th
Religion Islam

Mehmet Müezzinoğlu (born January 9, 1955 in Komotini, Greece) is a Turkish physician and politician. He is the current Minister of Health appointed on January 24, 2013.

Early years

He was born on January 9, 1955 in Kozlukebir village of Komotini (Turkish: Gümülcine) to father Ali and his wife Fatma, a family from the Turkish minority in Greece. Müezzinoğlu went to Istanbul for his high school education. He studied in an İmam Hatip school, where he met current prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who was his classmate.[1][2]

In 1983, Müezzinoğlu immigrated from Greece illegally by crossing the river Maritsa (Turkish: Meriç). Before acquiring Turkish citizenship in 1986, he lived in Turkey as a heimatlos between 1983 and 1986.[1]

Müezzinoğlu completed his medical specialisation in internal medicine at Haseki Hospital in 1986 after graduating from Cerrahpaşa Medicine Faculty of Istanbul University in 1982.[1][2]

Before entering politics, he worked as a physician in a private hospital he co-founded in Avcılar district of Istanbul Province. In his social life, he is a member of various associations and foundations related to Western Thrace Turks.[1][2][3]

Politics

Müezzinoğlu became a member of the Islamist Welfare Party (Turkish: Refah Partisi, RP) in 1992, where he helped to make policy alongside Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Between 2002 and 2007, he served as the chairman of the Justice and Development Party's Istanbul Province organization.[1]

He was elected deputy of Istanbul Province in the Turkish general election, 2007. He was reelected to the parliament in the 2011 general election, this time as deputy of Edirne. On January 24, 2013, Mehmet Müezzinoğlu was appointed Minister of Health in the cabinet of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, replacing Recep Akdağ.[1][4]

During the 2013 protests

During the 2013 protests in Turkey, several makeshift infirmaries were erected to treat victims of the violence. The injuries included trauma from plastic bullets and teargas canisters. In response to this, Müezzinoğlu declared that "[t]he infirmaries around the protest areas are illegal. This is ideologic and it's an execution violating the legal structure. There will be legal action taken against the medics working in those infirmaries."[5]

Family life

Mehmet Müezzinoğlu is married and has two children.[1][3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Mehmet Müezzinoğlu Kimdir". eskiSohbet (in Turkish). 2014-10-09. Retrieved 2014-10-09.
  2. 1 2 3 "Mehmet Müezzinoğlu" (in Turkish). TBMM. Retrieved 2013-01-26.
  3. 1 2 "Yeni Sağlık Bakanı Müezzinoğlu: Bakanlık beklemiyordum". Hürriyet (in Turkish). 2013-01-24. Retrieved 2013-01-26.
  4. ↑ Şenyüz, Selçuk (2012-01-24). "Sürpriz zirve sonrası kabine değişikliği". Hürriyet (in Turkish). Retrieved 2013-01-24.
  5. ↑ "Gezi direnişine destek olan sağlık çalışanlarına suç duyurusu". soL (in Turkish). 2013-06-13. Retrieved 2013-06-13.
Political offices
Preceded by
Recep Akdağ		 Minister of Health
2013–present 		Incumbent

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