Mehmet Müezzinoğlu

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Mehmet Müezzinoğlu
MP
Minister of Health
In office
24 January 2013 – 24 May 2016
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Ahmet Davutoğlu
Preceded by Recep Akdağ
Succeeded by Recep Akdağ
Member of the Grand National Assembly
Assumed office
22 July 2007
Constituency İstanbul (III) (2007)
Edirne (2011)
Bursa (June 2015, Nov 2015)
Personal details
Born (1955-01-09) 9 January 1955 (age 69)
Komotini, Greece
Political party Welfare Party (Before 1997)
Virtue Party (1997–2001)
Justice and Development Party (2001–present)
Alma mater Istanbul University
Cabinet 61st, 62nd, 63rd, 64th
Religion Islam

Mehmet Müezzinoğlu (born January 9, 1955) is a Turkish physician and politician who was the Minister of Health of Turkey from 2013 to 2016.

Early years

He was born on January 9, 1955 in Kozlukebir village of Komotini (Turkish: Gümülcine) to father Ali and his wife Fatma, a family from the Turkish minority in Greece. Müezzinoğlu went to Istanbul for his high school education. He studied in an İmam Hatip school, where he met Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who was his classmate.[1][2]

In 1983, Müezzinoğlu immigrated from Greece illegally by crossing the river Maritsa (Turkish: Meriç). Before acquiring Turkish citizenship in 1986, he lived in Turkey as a heimatlos between 1983 and 1986.[1]

Müezzinoğlu completed his medical specialisation in internal medicine at Haseki Hospital in 1986 after graduating from Cerrahpaşa Medicine Faculty of Istanbul University in 1982.[1][2]

Before entering politics, he worked as a physician in a private hospital he co-founded in Avcılar district of Istanbul Province. In his social life, he is a member of various associations and foundations related to Western Thrace Turks.[1][2][3]

Politics

Müezzinoğlu became a member of the Islamist Welfare Party (Turkish: Refah Partisi, RP) in 1992, where he helped to make policy alongside Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Between 2002 and 2007, he served as the chairman of the Justice and Development Party's Istanbul Province organization.[1]

He was elected as member of parliament for Istanbul Province in the 2007 general election. He was reelected to the parliament in the 2011 general election, this time as deputy for Edirne. On January 24, 2013, Mehmet Müezzinoğlu was appointed as Minister of Health in the cabinet of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, replacing Recep Akdağ.[1][4]

During the 2013 protests

During the 2013 protests in Turkey, several makeshift infirmaries were erected to treat victims of the violence. The injuries included trauma from plastic bullets and teargas canisters. In response to this, Müezzinoğlu declared that "[t]he infirmaries around the protest areas are illegal. This is ideologic and it's an execution violating the legal structure. There will be legal action taken against the medics working in those infirmaries."[5]

Family life

Mehmet Müezzinoğlu is married and has two children.[1][3]

References

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Political offices
Preceded by Minister of Health
2013–present		 Incumbent

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