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Place of Birth: Oltu, Turkey
About Efkan Ala
- Efkan Ala (born 21 February 1965) is a Turkish politician and former civil servant who served as the Minister of the Interior from November 2015 to August 2016;.
- He previously held the same post from 2013 to June 2015 despite not being a member of parliament at the time.
- He served as Governor of Batman from 2003 to 2004, as Governor of Diyarbakir from 2004 to 2007, and as Undersecretary to the Prime Minister from 2007 to 2013. Ala resigned from the cabinet on 31 August 2016, having been criticised consistently by the opposition for failing to tackle growing terrorism by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and the GĂĽlen Movement (FETĂ–).
- Attacks in Ankara, Istanbul and the south-east, as well as in the Syrian border provinces of Gaziantep and Kilis, had resulted in consistent calls for Ala's resignation, with criticism also being directed at how the Interior Ministry had appointed several Governors, police chiefs and bureaucrats throughout the country that were later identified to be supporters of FETĂ–, the alleged organisation accused of staging a failed coup d'Ă©tat attempt in July 2016.
- A reason for Ala's resignation was not given, though the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) claimed that Ala had been removed from office after the arrested Governor of Sinop and alleged FETĂ– supporter had claimed he had close relations to Ala.
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