Abdüllatif Şener

Abdüllatif Şener
Leader of the Turkey Party
In office
25 May 2009  27 August 2012
Preceded by Founded
Succeeded by Closed
Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey
In office
18 November 2002  29 August 2007
Prime Minister Abdullah Gül
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Preceded by Devlet Bahçeli
Şükrü Sina Gürel
Mesut Yılmaz
Succeeded by Cemil Çiçek
Hayati Yazıcı
Nazım Ekren
Minister of Finance of Turkey
In office
28 June 1996  30 June 1997
Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan
Preceded by Lütfullah Kayalar
Succeeded by Zekeriya Temizel
Personal details
Born

1954 (age 6162)


Gürün, Sivas Province, Turkey

Nationality Turkish (Karachay)
Political party Turkey Party (TP) (2009-2012)
Justice and Development Party (AKP) (2001-2007)
Virtue Party (FP) (1998-2001)
Welfare Party (RP) (1991-1998)
Alma mater Ankara University, Gazi University
Occupation Politician
Profession Finance, academic
Religion Islam

Abdüllatif Şener (born 1954) is a Turkish politician. He was Minister of Finance of Turkey from 1996 to 1997 and Deputy Prime Minister from 2002 to 2007, under Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

Life and career

Şener was born in Gürün, Sivas Province in Turkey. He graduated from the School of Political Sciences at Ankara University. He earned his PhD degree from Gazi University in Ankara. He lectured on finance at Gazi University and Hacettepe University, before he served as a controller in the Department of Revenues within the Ministry of Finance.

Şener entered politics and was elected in 1991 as deputy of Sivas Province from the Islamist Welfare Party (RP). He was Minister of Finance from 1996 to 1997. Following the ban of the Welfare Party in 1998, he became a member of the newly established Virtue Party (FP), which was also banned after three years in 2001. He was co-founder of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in 2001. He was elected to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey as deputy of Sivas Province, and he served under the AKP government as Deputy Prime Minister from 2002 to 2007.

He did not run for a seat in parliament in the 2007 general elections. After leaving the AK Party, he formed a new party; it was officially announced on 27 May 2009 and named the Turkey Party (Türkiye Partisi).[1]

Şener announced that the Turkey Party was officially closed on 27 August 2012 due to difficulties in maintaining its political goals outside of parliament.[2]

In an interview with Halk TV,[3] Şener strongly condemned the AK Party's handling of the 2013 protests in Turkey.

References

Party political offices
Preceded by
Newly Founded
Leader of the Turkey Party
25 May 200927 August 2012
Succeeded by
Closed
Political offices
Preceded by
Lütfullah Kayalar
Minister of Finance of Turkey
28 June 1996 30 June 1997
Succeeded by
Zekeriya Temizel
Preceded by
Devlet Bahçeli
Şükrü Sina Gürel
Mesut Yılmaz
Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey
18 November 2002 29 August 2007
Succeeded by
Cemil Çiçek
Hayati Yazıcı
Nazım Ekren
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