Turkish interior minister resigns

  01 September 2016    Read: 977
Turkish interior minister resigns
Labor and Social Security Minister Suleyman Soylu was appointed as Turkey’s new interior minister after the incumbent, Efkan Ala, resigned, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Wednesday.
A Justice and Development (AK) Party lawmaker for Trabzon on Turkey’s Black Sea coast, 47-year-old Soylu was appointed as new interior minister after Bursa deputy Ala resigned, Yildirim told reporters after a meeting with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Yildirim also confirmed that Bursa deputy, Mehmet Muezzinoglu, had been appointed as Turkey’s labor and social security minister.

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