İdris Güllüce (born 11 February 1950) is a Turkish civil engineer and politician who served as the Minister of Environment and Urban Planning of

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between 2013 and 2015. As a member of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), he served as a Member of Parliament for İstanbul's first electoral district between 2007 and November 2015.

Early life

İdris Güllüce was born to Hüseyin Güllüce and his wife Sıddıka in Hasankale (today Pasinler) of

Erzurum Province Erzurum Province () is a province and metropolitan municipality in the Eastern Anatolia Region of Turkey. Its area is 25,006 km2, and its population is 749,754 (2022). The capital of the province is the city of Erzurum. It is the fourth lar ...

on 11 February 1950. He was educated in

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Yıldız Technical University Yıldız Technical University ( Turkish: ''Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi'', often simply referred to as YTU or Yıldız) is a prominent public technical university dedicated to engineering and natural sciences, as well as social sciences recentl ...

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and went on to study Organization Management at Gebze Institute of Technology earning a

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. Güllüce is married and has five children.

Career

Profession

After working as an engineer and manager at construction sites in

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, Güllüce became business partner of a company, and served there as managing director.

Politics

He entered politics at regional level. Güllüce was elected Mayor of

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municipality in Istanbul serving three legislative terms. Güllüce was member of the

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and deputy chairman of the Istanbul Metropolitan city council. He published a book entitled ''"Problems of Regional Governments and Their Solutions".'' Güllüce was elected into the

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in the 2007 general election as an MP from

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. He was re-elected a second time into the parliament in the 2011 general election. Between 2009 and 2013, he served as the chairman of the parliamentary Public Works, Transportation and Tourism Commission. On 26 December 2013, İdris Güllüce assumed office as Minister of Environment and Urban Planning, succeeding

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during Erdoğan's cabinet reshuffle with ten new names announced the day before, on 25 December, following the

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Legacy

A cultural complex opened in 2005 and featuring a theatre capable of 460 spectators, the Tuzla İdris Güllüce Cultural Center, is named in his honor.

References

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