{"id":37336,"date":"2011-07-07T04:19:10","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T01:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=37336"},"modified":"2014-01-06T13:50:54","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T11:50:54","slug":"binali-yildirim-to-continue-serving-as-turkeys-transportation-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2011\/07\/07\/binali-yildirim-to-continue-serving-as-turkeys-transportation-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Binali Yildirim to continue serving as Turkey&#8217;s Transportation Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>He worked as research assistant at Shipbuilding and Marine Sciences Faculty of Istanbul Technical University, and as an engineer at Camialti shipyard.<\/h2>\n<h2>Binali Yildirim, who was elected a lawmaker from Izmir province in June 12 elections, will continue serving as Transportation Minister in the 61st Council of Ministers announced Wednesday by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-37341\" title=\"binali-yildirim\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/binali-yildirim.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/binali-yildirim.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/binali-yildirim-259x300.jpg 259w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yildirim was born in Erzincan in 1955. He graduated from Shipbuilding and Marine Sciences Faculty of Istanbul Technical University. He obtained a master&#8217;s degree from the same school. He also studied at World Maritime University.<\/p>\n<p>He worked as research assistant at Shipbuilding and Marine Sciences Faculty of Istanbul Technical University, and as an engineer at Camialti shipyard. He served as director-general of fast ferry firm Istanbul Deniz Otobusleri (IDO).<\/p>\n<p>He is a founding member of Justice &amp; Development (AK) Party. He was elected a board member of World Maritime University.<\/p>\n<p>In 2002 and 2007 elections, he was elected lawmaker from his hometown Erzincan. He was the Transportation Minister in 58th, 59th and 60th governments.<\/p>\n<p>He speaks English and French. He is married with 3 children.<\/p>\n<p>AA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He worked as research assistant at Shipbuilding and Marine Sciences Faculty of Istanbul Technical University, and as an engineer at Camialti shipyard. Binali Yildirim, who was elected a lawmaker from Izmir province in June 12 elections, will continue serving as Transportation Minister in the 61st Council of Ministers announced Wednesday by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":37341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[6344],"class_list":["post-37336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-turkey","tag-council-of-ministers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}