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Place of Birth: Erzincan, Turkey
About Vecdi Gönül
- Mehmet Vecdi Gönül (pronounced [ved?di '?œnyl]; born 29 November 1939) is a Turkish politician who served as the Minister of National Defence of Turkey from 3 July to 17 November 2015.
- He previously served in the same position from 2002 to 2011 and was a Member of Parliament from 1999 to 2015.Gönül first entered Parliament in the 1999 general election as an MP for Kocaeli from the Islamist Virtue Party (FP).
- He joined the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in 2011 when the FP was shut down and was re-elected as an AKP MP from Kocaeli in the 2002 general election.
- He became Minister of National Defence in the government of Abdullah Gül and continued in his position when Recep Tayyip Erdogan took over as Prime Minister in March 2003.
- He was re-elected as an MP, this time from Izmir's second electoral district, in the 2007 general election and again from Antalya in 2011.
- In Erdogan's third cabinet, he was succeeded as National Defence Minister by Ismet Yilmaz. Due to the AKP's three term limit, Gönül stepped down from Parliament at the June 2015 general election.
- After serving National Defence Minister Ismet Yilmaz was elected as Speaker of the Grand National Assembly on 1 July 2015, Gönül was re-appointed as National Defence Minister by Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu despite not being an MP and served until 17 November 2015.
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