Preceded by Founded Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan Role Turkish Politician | Succeeded by Closed Name Abdullatif Sener Organizations founded Turkey Party | |
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Prime Minister Abdullah Gul
Recep Tayyip Erdogan Preceded by Devlet Bahceli
Sukru Sina Gurel
Mesut Yilmaz Succeeded by Cemil Cicek
Hayati Yazici
Nazim Ekren Education Ankara University, Gazi University Parents Ayferat Sener, Bedirhan Sener Political party Turkey Party, Virtue Party, Welfare Party Similar People Bulent Arinc, Abdullah Gul, Erkan Mumcu, Necmettin Erbakan, Recep Tayyip Erdogan | ||
Abdüllatif Şener: Erdoğan ile en başından beri anlaşamadım
Abdüllatif Şener (born 1954) is a Turkish politician. He was Minister of Finance of Turkey from 1996 to 1997 and Deputy Prime Minister from 2002 to 2007, under Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
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Life and career
Şener was born in Gürün, Sivas Province in Turkey. He graduated from the School of Political Sciences at Ankara University. He earned his PhD degree from Gazi University in Ankara. He lectured on finance at Gazi University and Hacettepe University, before he served as a controller in the Department of Revenues within the Ministry of Finance.
Şener entered politics and was elected in 1991 as deputy of Sivas Province from the Islamist Welfare Party (RP). He was Minister of Finance from 1996 to 1997. Following the ban of the Welfare Party in 1998, he became a member of the newly established Virtue Party (FP), which was also banned after three years in 2001. He was co-founder of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in 2001. He was elected to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey as deputy of Sivas Province, and he served under the AKP government as Deputy Prime Minister from 2002 to 2007.
He did not run for a seat in parliament in the 2007 general elections. After leaving the AK Party, he formed a new party; it was officially announced on 27 May 2009 and named the Turkey Party (Türkiye Partisi).
Şener announced that the Turkey Party was officially closed on 27 August 2012 due to difficulties in maintaining its political goals outside of parliament.
In an interview with Halk TV, Şener strongly condemned the AK Party's handling of the 2013 protests in Turkey.