Emrullah İşler (born 7 January 1960) is a Turkish theologian, university lecturer, and politician. On 25 December 2013, he was appointed as a deputy prime minister in the third cabinet of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
Emrullah İşler | |
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| Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey | |
| In office 25 December 2013 – 29 August 2014 | |
| Prime Minister | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan |
| Serving with | Bülent Arınç Beşir Atalay Ali Babacan |
| Preceded by | Bekir Bozdağ |
| Succeeded by | Yalçın Akdoğan |
| Member of the Grand National Assembly | |
| Assumed office 12 June 2011 | |
| Constituency | Ankara (II) (2011, June 2015, Nov 2015, 2018) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 7 January 1960 Kuşcuören, Kızılcahamam, Ankara Province, Turkey |
| Political party | Justice and Development Party (AK Party) |
| Children | 3 |
| Education | Theology, Law |
| Alma mater | |
| Occupation | Politician, academic |
Early life edit
Emrullah İşler was born to Abdullah and Zeliha İşler in the village of Kuşcuören in the Kızılcahamam district of Ankara Province on 7 January 1960.[1][2]
After receiving a Bachelor's degree in Islamic Science from the Faculty of Education at King Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, he completed his education with a Master's degree, and earned later a PhD degree in Tafsir (Interpretation of the Qur'an and Hadith) at the Basic Islamic Science Department of the Institute of Social Science in Ankara University.[1][2]
Career edit
Academics edit
İşler worked as associate professor for Tafsir at the Faculty of Theology of Cumhuriyet University in Sivas, and then in Arabic language at Gazi University's Faculty of Education in Ankara, where he was later promoted to full professor. He served also as visiting professor at universities in Kazakhstan and Saudi Arabia.[1][2]
Politics edit
He entered politics through the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), and was elected into the Grand National Assembly of Turkey in the 2011 general election as an MP from Ankara Province. He was appointed head of the Nigeria-Turkey Interparliamentary Group.[3] İşler served as chief advisor to the prime minister.[1][2] He was Erdoğan's interpreter for Arabic language and was part of his close circle.[4]
On 26 December 2013, Emrullah İşler assumed office as a deputy prime minister, replacing Bekir Bozdağ during Erdoğan's cabinet reshuffle with ten new names that was announced the day before, on 25 December, following the 2013 corruption scandal in Turkey.[5][6][7]
In 2014, İşler claimed that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in Iraq did not amount to torture.[8]
References edit
- ^ a b c d e "İşte yeni bakanların özgeçmişi". Radikal (in Turkish). 26 December 2013. Retrieved 26 December 2013.
- ^ a b c d e "Emrullah İşler" (in Turkish). TBMM. Retrieved 27 December 2013.
- ^ "Hakan Şükür'ün üçüncü İtalya görevi". Hürriyet (in Turkish). 9 December 2011. Retrieved 27 December 2013.
- ^ Yılmaz, Turan & Esra Kaya (26 December 2013). "Kabinede 10 değişiklik". Hürriyet (in Turkish). Retrieved 27 December 2013.
- ^ "Üç bakan istifa etti". Hürriyet (in Turkish). 25 December 2013. Retrieved 26 December 2013.
- ^ "PM Erdoğan announces new Cabinet with 10 changes amid graft probe". Hürriyet Daily News. 25 December 2013. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
- ^ "PM Erdoğan announces 10 new names in major Cabinet reshuffle". Today's Zaman. 25 December 2013. Archived from the original on 1 February 2014. Retrieved 2014-01-30.
- ^ "AK Partili İşler: "IŞİD öldürüyor ama işkence yapmıyor" – nediyor.com". Archived from the original on 16 March 2015. Retrieved 23 April 2015.