Ahmet Davutoğlu, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Ahmet Davutoğlu

Turkish politician

Date of Birth: 26-Feb-1959

Place of Birth: Taşkent, Turkey

Profession: writer, politician, professor, diplomat, pedagogue, political scientist

Nationality: Turkey

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

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About Ahmet Davutoğlu

  • Ahmet Davutoglu (Turkish pronunciation: [ah'met davu'to??u] (listen); born 26 February 1959) is a Turkish academic, politician and former diplomat who served as the 26th Prime Minister of Turkey and Leader of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) from 2014 to 2016.
  • He previously served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2009 to 2014 and chief advisor to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan from 2003 to 2009.
  • He was elected as an AKP Member of Parliament for Konya in the 2011 general election and was reelected as an MP in both the June and November 2015 general elections.
  • He resigned as Prime Minister on 22 May 2016.Following the election of serving Prime Minister and AKP Leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan as the 12th President of Turkey, Davutoglu was announced by the AKP Central Executive Committee as a candidate for the party leadership.
  • He was unanimously elected as leader during the first AKP extraordinary congress and consequently succeeded Erdogan as prime minister, forming the 62nd Government of the Turkish Republic.
  • His cabinet was dominated by Erdogan's close allies such as Yalçin Akdogan; this led to speculation that he would take a docile approach as prime minister while Erdogan continued to pursue his own political agenda as president.
  • The AKP lost its parliamentary majority in the June 2015 general election, though it remained the largest party.
  • Davutoglu's government subsequently resigned but stayed in power until a new government could be formed.
  • After undertaking a series of unsuccessful coalition negotiations with opposition parties, Davutoglu was tasked with forming Turkey's first-ever interim election government, which presided over snap elections scheduled for November 2015.
  • The AKP regained its parliamentary majority in November after a landslide victory, with Davutoglu subsequently forming his third government. Following a deterioration in relations between Davutoglu and Erdogan over their disagreements regarding parliamentary candidate lists, government policy and the implementation of an executive presidential system of government, Davutoglu announced his resignation as AKP leader and Prime Minister seven months after his November 2015 general election victory.
  • He announced that an Extraordinary party Congress would be held on 22 May 2016 and that he would not stand for re-election for the party leadership.
  • He was succeeded as leader by Binali Yildirim and tendered his resignation as Prime Minister soon afterward.Davutoglu's administration oversaw an escalation of conflict between the government and the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) after a two-year ceasefire broke down in mid-2015, with his premiership being described as the 'bloodiest' in Turkey's history.
  • His government originally authorised airstrikes against both PKK and Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) positions on 20 July after a suicide bombing killed 32 people in the southeastern town of Suruç.
  • The government's offensive against ISIL suffered sustained criticism by allies such as the United States over Turkey's lack of action against the group, though the political opposition accused Davutoglu of sparking the conflict deliberately to win back votes and regain a parliamentary majority in the November 2015 snap election.
  • His government also presided over the ongoing political conflict with the Gülen Movement and the spillover effects of the Syrian Civil War across the border with Turkey, as well as the European migrant crisis that emerged as a result.
  • Although his foreign policy outlook has been described as Neo-Ottoman or Pan-Islamist, Davutoglu made Turkey's accession bid to the European Union a strategic target for his government.
  • He has been criticised for failing to tackle political corruption and for growing government authoritarianism, with a new national security bill in early 2015 causing opposition commentators to accuse his government of turning Turkey into a police state.In September 2019, having long been speculated to be preparing to launch his own party, Davutoglu resigned from the AKP and accused his former party of no longer being able to provide solutions for Turkey.
  • On 12 December 2019, he launched the Future Party and became its first leader.

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