Mehmet Şimşek (born 1 January 1967) is a Turkish politician and economist of Kurdish origin who served as a Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey from 24 November 2015 until the office's abolition on 9 July 2018. He previously served as the Minister of Finance from 2009 to 2015, serving in the cabinets of Prime Ministers of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Ahmet Davutoğlu. As a member of the Justice and Development Party, he was elected as a Member of Parliament for Gaziantep in the 2007 general election and for Batman in the 2011 general election.
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1 January 1967 (age 58) Gercüş, Batman, Turkey
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Zodiac | Capricorn |
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