ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan named Bekir Bozdag, a member of his ruling AK Celebration, as Justice Minister, and likewise changed the chief of statistics Institute TUIK, the Official Gazette stated on Saturday.
It stated former Justice Minister Abdulhamit Gul had resigned, however didn’t give a purpose.
Bozdag, 56, had served as justice minister beneath Erdogan between 2013-2015 and 2015-2017, earlier than being a deputy prime minister till 2018, when the position was abolished as a part of constitutional adjustments that gave Erdogan sweeping government powers.
“I thank our President Mr Tayyip Erdogan for entrusting the publish of Justice Minister to me… Could God assist us,” Bozdag stated on Twitter on Saturday.
Erdogan additionally eliminated Sait Erdal Dincer as TUIK chairman lower than a yr after his appointment, and named Erhan Cetinkaya to interchange him, the Gazette stated.
Opposition events and critics have accused TUIK of meddling with official information, equivalent to inflation, for political causes. The institute has dismissed the allegation, however researchers have begun different inflation calculations.
Embroiled in a foreign money disaster, Turkey had been dogged by hovering inflation that’s anticipated to hit a close to 20-year excessive round 47% in January, a Reuters ballot confirmed on Friday.
(Reporting by Ali Kucukgocmen; Writing by Tuvan Gumrukcu; Modifying by Diane Craft and John Stonestreet)
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