Mehmet Müezzinoğlu
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Mehmet Müezzinoğlu MP |
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| Minister of Labour and Social Security | |
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Assumed office 31 August 2016 |
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| Prime Minister | Binali Yıldırım |
| Preceded by | Süleyman Soylu |
| Minister of Health | |
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In office 24 January 2013 – 24 May 2016 |
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| Prime Minister |
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Ahmet Davutoğlu |
| Preceded by | Recep Akdağ |
| Succeeded by | Recep Akdağ |
| Member of the Grand National Assembly | |
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Assumed office 22 July 2007 |
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| Constituency |
İstanbul (III) (2007) Edirne (2011) Bursa (June 2015, Nov 2015) |
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| Born |
9 January 1955 Arriana, 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, 65th |
| Religion | Islam |
Mehmet Müezzinoğlu (born January 9, 1955) is a Turkish physician and politician who currently serves as the Minister of Labour and Social Security since August 2016. He was the Minister of Health of Turkey from 2013 to 2016.
He was born on January 9, 1955 in Arriana village of Rhodope to 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 Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who was his classmate.
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.
Müezzinoğlu completed his medical specialisation in internal medicine at Haseki Hospital in 1986 after graduating from Cerrahpaşa Medicine Faculty of Istanbul University in 1982.
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.
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.
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