Vecdi Gönül, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Age, Net Worth, Biography

Mehmet Vecdi Gönül (pronounced [ved?di '?œnyl]; born 29 November 1939) is a Turkish politician who served as the Minister of National Defence of Turkey from 3 July to 17 November 2015.
He previously served in the same position from 2002 to 2011 and was a Member of Parliament from 1999 to 2015.Gönül first entered Parliament in the 1999 general election as an MP for Kocaeli from the Islamist Virtue Party (FP).
He joined the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in 2011 when the FP was shut down and was re-elected as an AKP MP from Kocaeli in the 2002 general election.
He became Minister of National Defence in the government of Abdullah Gül and continued in his position when Recep Tayyip Erdogan took over as Prime Minister in March 2003.
He was re-elected as an MP, this time from Izmir's second electoral district, in the 2007 general election and again from Antalya in 2011.
In Erdogan's third cabinet, he was succeeded as National Defence Minister by Ismet Yilmaz. Due to the AKP's three term limit, Gönül stepped down from Parliament at the June 2015 general election.
After serving National Defence Minister Ismet Yilmaz was elected as Speaker of the Grand National Assembly on 1 July 2015, Gönül was re-appointed as National Defence Minister by Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu despite not being an MP and served until 17 November 2015.

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