Kemal Unakıtan

Kemal Unakıtan

Minister of Finance
In office 19 November 2002 – 1 May 2009
Prime Minister	Abdullah Gül Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Preceded by	Sümer Oral
Succeeded by	Mehmet Şimşek
Personal details
Born	(1946-02-14)14 February 1946 Edirne, Turkey
Died	12 October 2016(2016-10-12) (aged 70) Istanbul, Turkey
Nationality	Turkish
Political party	Justice and Development Party
Alma mater	Gazi University
Occupation	Civil servant, politician
Cabinet	58th, 59th, 60th

Kemal Unakıtan (February 14, 1946 – October 12, 2016) was the Minister of Finance of Turkey from November 2002 to May 2009 and a Member of Parliament for Istanbul of the Justice and Development Party. He was born in Edirne.

Previously he was a board member of the Family Finance Group.

Durung his tenure as minister of finance Unakitan presided over a number of situations primarily the Treasury's need to raise funds (!) at a time when Turkey had a large national debt and was failing to collect taxes to cover it. Unakıtan therefore

sold forestry land to raise funds for the treasury
raised fuel duties and other indirect taxation plus
imposed extra duties and payments such as his "permanent earthquake fund"

On March 7, 2008, Unakıtan received the Finance Minister of the Year Award from the business magazine The Banker.^[1]

He died on October 12, 2016 after a prolonged illness.^[2]

Books

Nedim Şener (2005), Fırsatlar Ülkesinde Bir Kemal Abi (A Kemal Abi in A Land of Opportunities)

References

↑ "Finance Minister of the Year: Kemal Unakitan". The Banker. 2008-01-02. Retrieved 2008-01-02.
↑ "Former Turkish finance minister Unakıtan dies aged 70". Hurriyet Daily News. Retrieved 24 October 2016.

Political offices
Preceded by Sümer Oral	Minister of Finance of Turkey Nov 19, 2002–May 1, 2009	Succeeded by Mehmet Şimşek

Cabinet of Prime Minister Abdullah Gül (2002–2003)

Cabinet

Deputy Prime Ministers	Mehmet Ali Şahin Abdüllatif Şener Ertuğrul Yalçınbayır

Minister of State	Mehmet Aydın Beşir Atalay Ali Babacan Kürşad Tüzmen

Minister of Justice	Cemil Çiçek

Minister of National Defense	Mehmet Vecdi Gönül

Minister of the Interior	Abdülkadir Aksu

Minister of Foreign Affairs	Yaşar Yakış

Minister of Finance	Kemal Unakıtan

Minister of National Education	Erkan Mumcu

Minister of Public Works and Settlement	Zeki Ergezen

Minister of Health	Recep Akdağ

Minister of Transport and Communication	Binali Yıldırım

Minister of Agriculture	Sami Güçlü

Minister of Labour and Social Security	Murat Başesgioğlu

Minister of Industry and Commerce	Ali Coşkun

Minister of Energy and Natural Resources	Mehmet Hilmi Güler

Minister of Culture	Hüseyin Çelik

Minister of Tourism	Güldal Akşit

Minister of Environment	İmdat Sütlüoğlu

Minister of Forestry	Osman Pepe

Erdoğan Cabinet I (2003–2007)

Abdullah Gül^D Mehmet Ali Şahin^D Abdüllatif Şener^D Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Ali Babacan^S Güldal Akşit^S Nimet Çubukçu^SE Mehmet Aydın^S Kürşad Tüzmen^S Beşir Atalay^S Cemil Çiçek Fahri Kasırga^E Mehmet Vecdi Gönül Abdülkadir Aksu Osman Güneş^E Kemal Unakıtan Hüseyin Çelik Zeki Ergezen Faruk Nafız Özak^C Recep Akdağ Binali Yıldırım İsmet Yılmaz^E Sami Güçlü Mehmet Mehdi Eker^C Murat Başesgioğlu Ali Coşkun Mehmet Hilmi Güler Erkan Mumcu Atilla Koç^C Osman Pepe

D: Deputy Prime Minister; Bold: Prime Minister of Turkey; S: State Minister; C: served from 2005; E: served from 2007

Erdoğan Cabinet II (2007–2011)

Cemil Çiçek^D Hayati Yazıcı^D Bülent Arınç^DC Nazım Ekren^D Ali Babacan^DC Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Mehmet Aydın^S Kürşad Tüzmen^S Mehmet Zafer Çağlayan^SC Nimet Çubukçu^S Selma Aliye Kavaf^SC Cevdet Yılmaz^S Mustafa Sait Yazıcıoğlu^S Faruk Çelik^SC Murat Başesgioğlu^S Faruk Nafız Özak^SC Egemen Bağış^SC Hayati Yazıcı^S Mehmet Ali Şahin Sadullah Ergin^C Sadullah Ergin Mehmet Vecdi Gönül Beşir Atalay Ali Babacan Ahmet Davutoğlu^C Kemal Unakıtan Mehmet Şimşek^C Hüseyin Çelik Nimet Çubukçu^C Faruk Nafız Özak Mustafa Demir^C Recep Akdağ Binali Yıldırım Mehmet Mehdi Eker Faruk Çelik Ömer Dinçer^C Mehmet Zafer Çağlayan Nihat Ergün^C Mehmet Hilmi Güler Taner Yıldız^C Ertuğrul Günay Veysel Eroğlu

D: Deputy Prime Minister; Bold: Prime Minister of Turkey; S: State Minister; C: served from 2009

Ministers of Finance of Turkey

Hasan Fehmi Ataç Abdülhalik Renda Recep Peker Hasan Saka Şükrü Saracoğlu Fuat Ağralı Nurullah Esat Sümer Halit Nazmi Keşmir Hasan Şevket Adalan İsmail Rüştü Aksal Halil Ayan Hasan Polatkan Nedim Ökmen Ekrem Alican Mustafa Kemal Kurdaş Osman Şefik İnan Ferit Melen İhsan Gürsan Nevzat Cihat Bilgehan Ali Mesut Erez Sait Naci Ergin Ziya Müezzinoğlu Sadık Tekin Müftüoğlu Deniz Baykal Bedri Gürsoy Yılmaz Ergenekon Besim Üstünel İsmet Sezgin Kaya Erdem Adnan Başer Kafaoğlu Vural Arıkan Ahmet Kurtcebe Alptemoçin Ekrem Pakdemirli Adnan Kahveci Sümer Oral İsmet Attila Lütfullah Kayalar Abdüllatif Şener Zekeriya Temizel İbrahim Nami Çağan Kemal Unakıtan Mehmet Şimşek Naci Ağbal

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 70835328 LCCN: n2007010295

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