Binali Yıldırım, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Binali Yıldırım

Turkish politician; 27th Prime Minister of Turkey

Date of Birth: 20-Dec-1955

Place of Birth: Refahiye, Turkey

Profession: engineer, politician, naval engineer

Nationality: Turkey

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

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About Binali Yıldırım

  • Binali Yildirim (Turkish pronunciation: [bina?li j?ld?'??m]; born 20 December 1955) is a Turkish politician who served as the 27th and last Prime Minister of Turkey from 2016 to 2018 and Speaker of the Grand National Assembly from 2018 to 2019.
  • He was Leader of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) from 2016 to 2017, then becoming parliamentary leader until 2018. Yildirim served as chairman of the board of Directors of Istanbul Fast Ferries Company (IDO) from 1994 to 2000 before being elected as an AKP Member of Parliament for Istanbul's first electoral district during the 2002 general election.
  • He was appointed as Minister of Transport by Prime Minister Abdullah Gül and continued in office after Erdogan became Prime Minister in 2003.
  • As Transport Minister, he presided over numerous projects such as Marmaray, high-speed rail lines and an expansion in the country's airport and road facilities, though received heavy criticism and calls for his resignation following the Pamukova train derailment in 2004.
  • In 2011, the portfolios of Maritime and Communications were merged with the Ministry of Transport, with Yildirim becoming the Minister of Transport, Maritime and Communication. Leaving office in a cabinet reshuffle in 2013, Yildirim ran as the AKP candidate for Mayor of Izmir in the 2014 local elections but lost to the incumbent Republican People's Party (CHP) candidate Aziz Kocaoglu.
  • He was appointed as special advisor to Erdogan in June 2014 and left Parliament in the June 2015 general election due to the AKP's three-term rule for its sitting MPs.
  • He was re-appointed as Transport Minister by Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu after being reelected to Parliament in the November 2015 general election.
  • Following Davutoglu's resignation as party leader due to a breakdown in relations with President Erdogan on 5 May 2016, Yildirim was announced as the AKP's next leader by the Central Executive Committee on 19 May and was elected unopposed during the party's 2nd Extraordinary Congress on 22 May 2016.
  • He formed the country's 65th government and became Prime Minister on 24 May 2016.
  • Factions of the Turkish Army in discontent with his policies attempted to oust him in a failed military coup d'état attempt on 15 July 2016.As a staunch supporter of Erdogan, Yildirim was referred to as a 'low-profile' Prime Minister and expected to spearhead a transition from a parliamentary system of government to an executive presidency, which would delegate greater powers to Erdogan and the presidency.
  • Following the declared victory of the 'Yes' vote in the 2017 constitutional referendum despite electoral irregularities, Yildirim resigned as AKP Leader in place of Erdogan, who was elected as his successor during the 3rd AKP extraordinary Congress on 21 May 2017.
  • Yildirim was subsequently elected as the AKP's parliamentary leader by 300 votes on 24 May.
  • The office of Prime Minister of Turkey was abolished as a result of the 2017 constitutional referendum. In 2013, Yildirim was implicated in a government corruption scandal, with the financial and social activities of his family members also coming under scrutiny.
  • He has caused controversy over his defence of greater government surveillance and comments favouring sex segregation.
  • He was the AKP nominee for Mayor of Istanbul in both the March 2019 and June 2019 Istanbul mayoral elections (the latter of which occurred after the AKP had the March election annulled), losing both to CHP nominee Ekrem Imamoglu, who he conceded defeat to and congratulated following the June 2019 election.

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