Binali Yıldırım declares cabinet list

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has approved the list of new cabinet members presented by new Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım. AK Party's new leader has declared who will take a seat in his cabinet and minor cabinet shake-up.

Nurettin Canikli, Mehmet Şimşek, Numan Kurtulmuş, Veysi Kaynak and Tuğrul Türkeş have been promoted to key portfolio as deputy prime ministers.

Berat Albayrak, Bekir Bozdağ and Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu – all three remain in their previous positions in the new cabinet. Nihat Zeybekçi has been reappointed as economy minister, a post he had held until last November.

Only one woman has taken a seat in the new government. Eroğlu is serving as minister for a fifth consecutive term.

Ömer Çelik has become Turkey's EU Affairs Minister in the mini cabinet reshuffle. In the previous cabinet, Volkan Bozkır occupied this post.

Nihat Zeybekçi has been promoted to the Cabinet as economy minister.

In the new cabinet, Naci Ağbal will serve as finance minister while his predecessor Mehmet Şimşek has been promoted to key post as deputy prime minister.

Nurettin Canikli

Mehmet Şimşek

Numan Kurtulmuş

Yıldırım Tuğrul Türkeş

Veysi Kaynak

Efkan Ala

Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu

Bekir Bozdağ

Ömer Çelik

Nihat Zeybekçi

Naci Ağbal

Lütfi Elvan

Bülent Tüfenkçi

Fatma Betül Kaya

Faruk Özlü

Süleyman Soylu

Mehmet Özhaseki

Berat Albyrak

Akif Çağatay Kılıç

Faruk Çelik

Nabi Avcı

İsmet Yılmaz

Fikri Işık

Veysel Eroğlu

Recep Akdağ

Ahmet Arslan

Yıldırım, who succeeded to Ahmet Davutoğlu, was elected the governing AK Party's third and last chair in party's congress on Sunday. He was the sole candidate nominated to post of prime minister as in previous party conventions.

Yıldırım is one of the party founders and close allies to President Erdoğan. Yıldirim is now at the helm of party and will lead Turkey's 65th government. He was serving as tranportation minister in his previous post.

He presented the new list consisting of new cabinet members to Erdoğan earlier on Tuesday. President has temporarily paused hosting play the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul and left for Ankara to approve Yıldırım's government.

The AK Party has appeared to be the most successful political movement in Turkey's democratic history. It has dominated the Turkish political landscape since 2002.

The three-term Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, won the country's first-ever direct presidential election on Aug 10, winning 51.8 percent of the votes.

The party will now push for a new constitution to build the new Turkey despite the opposition's claims the country is creeping towards

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It needs at least 367 seats, which means two thirds of the 550-seat Parliament, to push amendments in the country's decades-old Constitution, which was prepared after the 1980 military coup.