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Key facts
- Preceded by
- Position established
- Prime minister
- Recep Tayyip Erdoğan , Ahmet Davutoğlu
- Serving with
- Bülent Arınç , Beşir Atalay , Bekir Bozdağ , Emrullah İşler , Yalçın Akdoğan , Numan Kurtulmuş
- Succeeded by
- Cevdet Yılmaz
- Constituency
- Ankara (I) ( Nov 2015 )
- Born
- ( 1967-04-04 ) 4 April 1967 (age 59) , Ankara , Turkey
- Party
- Justice and Development Party (2001–2019) , Democracy and Progress Party (2020–present)
- Spouse
- Ülkü Zeynep Yurter ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1995 )
- Education
- TED Ankara College
- Alma mater
- Middle East Technical University ( BS ), Northwestern University ( MBA )
- Occupation
- Politician economist engineer
- Website
- alibabacan .com .tr
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Turkey
- Place of birth
- Ankara
- Occupation
- engineer
- Political party
- Democracy and Progress Party
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Image
- Ali Babacan, May 21, 2022.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1967-04-04
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- Ali Babacan
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- 1152715
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- Office of the Prime Minister of Turkey
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Encyclopedic overview
Ali Babacan ( Turkish pronunciation: [aˈli babaˈdʒan]; born 4 April 1967) is a Turkish politician, economist, and engineer. He is the founder and current leader of the Democracy and Progress Party (DEVA). He served 13 years as the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Economy, Chief Negotiator for the EU and Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey from 2002 to 2015. He was a member of the parliament as well.
He first served as the Minister of State in charge of economic affairs in the 58th cabinet from the Justice and Development Party (AKP). He retained this position throughout the 58th and 59th Governments of the Republic of Turkey. On 29 August 2007 he was appointed as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the 60th Government of the Republic of Turkey. During 2009–2015, he served as the Deputy Prime Minister for Economic and Financial Affairs of Turkey.
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