Güldal Akşit
Güldal Akşit (pronounced [ɟyɫdaɫ ˈakʃit]; 23 January 1960 – 3 December 2021) was a Turkish politician and the President of the Parliamentary Commission on Equal Opportunities for Men and Women.[1]
Biography
[edit]Güldal Akşit was born in Malatya on 23 January 1960.[2] Her father was a politician, Galip Demirel.[2] She attended the Foreign Languages School of Hacettepe University.[2] Then she graduated from Istanbul University's Faculty of Law.[3]
She was elected as a member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, representing Istanbul, and served from 2002 to 2011.[4] She was the minister of culture and tourism[5] in the cabinet of Abdullah Gül and in the first cabinet of Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Akşit was the head of the AKP women's branch[5] and interested in women's rights.[6]
Akşit was married and had no children.[2] She died from COVID-19 in Ankara on 3 December 2021, amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey. She was 61.[7] She is buried at Karşıyaka Cemetery in Ankara.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ "Eski Bakan Güldal Akşit panelde uykuya direnemedi". Milliyet. 7 November 2009. Retrieved 28 November 2010.
Eski Devlet Bakanı ve TBMM Kadın ve Erkek Fırsat Eşitliği Komisyonu Başkanı Güldal Akşit [Former state minister and chairman of the Parliamentary Commission on Equal Opportunities for Men and Women Güldal Akşit]
- ^ a b c d "Guldal Akşit Kimdir ve Nerelidir?". Haber 7 (in Turkish). 6 December 2020. Retrieved 31 December 2021.
- ^ "AK PARTİ". www.akparti.org.tr. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
- ^ "İstanbul 2007 Genel Seçimi Sonuçları". Yeni Şafak. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
- ^ a b Culbertson, Shelly (19 April 2016). The Fires of Spring: A Post-Arab Spring Journey Through the Turbulent New Middle East - Turkey, Iraq, Qatar, Jordan, Egypt, and Tunisia. St. Martin's Publishing Group. pp. 105-106. ISBN 978-1-4668-7495-4.
- ^ Yavuz, M. Hakan; Yavuz, Assistant Professor Department of Political Science M. Hakan (29 May 2006). The Emergence of a New Turkey: Islam, Democracy, and the AK Parti. University of Utah Press. p. 266. ISBN 978-0-87480-863-6.
- ^ "Son dakika! AK Partili Güldal Akşit vefat etti". 3 December 2021. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
- ^ "Güldal Akşit son yolculuğuna uğurlandı". Milliyet (in Turkish). 4 December 2020. Retrieved 5 December 2021.
External links
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| Minister of Justice | Cemil Çiçek (2002–2003) | |
| Minister of National Defense | Mehmet Vecdi Gönül (2002–2003) | |
| Minister of Interior | Abdülkadir Aksu (2002–2003) | |
| Minister of Foreign Affairs | Yaşar Yakış (2002–2003) | |
| Minister of Finance | Kemal Unakıtan (2002–2003) | |
| Minister of National Education | Erkan Mumcu (2002–2003) | |
| Minister of Public Works and Settlement | Zeki Ergezen (2002–2003) | |
| Minister of Health | Recep Akdağ (2002–2003) | |
| Minister of Transport and Communication | Binali Yıldırım (2002–2003) | |
| Minister of Agriculture | Sami Güçlü (2002–2003) | |
| Minister of Labour and Social Security | Murat Başesgioğlu (2002–2003) | |
| Minister of Industry and Commerce | Ali Coşkun (2002–2003) | |
| Minister of Energy and Natural Resources | Mehmet Hilmi Güler (2002–2003) | |
| Minister of Culture | Hüseyin Çelik (2002–2003) | |
| Minister of Tourism | Güldal Akşit (2002–2003) | |
| Minister of Environment | İmdat Sütlüoğlu (2002–2003) | |
| Minister of Forestry | Osman Pepe (2002–2003) | |
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