Emrullah İşler

Emrullah İşler
MP Ph.D
Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey
In office
25 December 2013 – 29 August 2014
Prime MinisterRecep Tayyip Erdoğan
Serving withBülent Arınç
Beşir Atalay
Ali Babacan
Preceded byBekir Bozdağ
Succeeded byYalçın Akdoğan
Member of the Grand National Assembly
Incumbent
Assumed office
12 June 2011
ConstituencyAnkara (II) (2011, June 2015, Nov 2015, 2018)
Personal details
Born (1960-01-07) 7 January 1960 (age 64)
Kuşcuören, Kızılcahamam, Ankara Province, Turkey
Political partyJustice and Development Party (AK Party)
Children3
EducationTheology, Law
Alma mater
OccupationPolitician, academic

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.

Early life

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]

He is married and has three children.[1][2]

Career

Academics

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

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

  1. ^ a b c d e "İşte yeni bakanların özgeçmişi". Radikal (in Turkish). 26 December 2013. Retrieved 26 December 2013.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Emrullah İşler" (in Turkish). TBMM. Retrieved 27 December 2013.
  3. ^ "Hakan Şükür'ün üçüncü İtalya görevi". Hürriyet (in Turkish). 9 December 2011. Retrieved 27 December 2013.
  4. ^ Yılmaz, Turan & Esra Kaya (26 December 2013). "Kabinede 10 değişiklik". Hürriyet (in Turkish). Retrieved 27 December 2013.
  5. ^ "Üç bakan istifa etti". Hürriyet (in Turkish). 25 December 2013. Retrieved 26 December 2013.
  6. ^ "PM Erdoğan announces new Cabinet with 10 changes amid graft probe". Hürriyet Daily News. 25 December 2013. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
  7. ^ "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.
  8. ^ "AK Partili İşler: "IŞİD öldürüyor ama işkence yapmıyor" – nediyor.com". Archived from the original on 16 March 2015. Retrieved 23 April 2015.
Political offices
Preceded by Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey
26 December 2013 – present
With: Bülent Arınç
Beşir Atalay
Ali Babacan 		Incumbent