The Ministry of Interior or Ministry of the Interior or Interior Ministry ( tr, İçişleri Bakanlığı lit. Ministry of Internal Affairs) is a government ministry of the Republic of Turkey, responsible for interior security affairs in

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula in ...

. The current Minister of the Interior is

Süleyman Soylu Süleyman Soylu (; born 21 November 1969) is a Turkish politician. He is a deputy chairman of the Justice and Development Party who currently serves as the Minister of the Interior since 31 August 2016. He previously served as the Minister of L ...

, after the resignation of his predecessor Efkan Ala in August 2016.

Functions

The ministry is responsible for disaster and emergency management,

immigration Immigration is the international movement of people to a destination country of which they are not natives or where they do not possess citizenship in order to settle as permanent residents or naturalized citizens. Commuters, tourists, a ...

, inspection of

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, gendarmerie and

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(in peacetime), and

police The police are a constituted body of persons empowered by a state, with the aim to enforce the law, to ensure the safety, health and possessions of citizens, and to prevent crime and civil disorder. Their lawful powers include arrest and th ...

. The ministry helps to combat human trafficking, smuggling and

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Alleged interference in politics

Although forming a new political party is a

constitutional right A constitutional right can be a prerogative or a duty, a power or a restraint of power, recognized and established by a sovereign state or union of states. Constitutional rights may be expressly stipulated in a national constitution, or they may ...

, the Interior Ministry allegedly blocked the

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from standing in the general election due by June 2023.

Ministers of the Internal Affairs

References

External links

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1920 establishments in the Ottoman Empire Turkey, Interior {{Turkey-stub

Functions

Alleged interference in politics

Ministers of the Internal Affairs

See also

References

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