Emrullah İşler (born 7 January 1960) is a Turkish theologian, university lecturer, and politician. On 25 December 2013, he was appointed as a

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in the third cabinet of Prime Minister

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Early life

Emrullah İşler was born to Abdullah and Zeliha İşler in the village of Kuşcuören in the

Kızılcahamam Kızılcahamam is a town and district of Ankara Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey, 70 km north of the city of Ankara, near the motorway to Istanbul. According to 2010 census, population of the district is 25,203 of which ...

district of

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on 7 January 1960. After receiving a

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in Islamic Science from the Faculty of Education at

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, he completed his education with a Master's degree, and earned later a

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Tafsir Tafsir ( ar, تفسير, tafsīr ) refers to exegesis, usually of the Quran. An author of a ''tafsir'' is a ' ( ar, مُفسّر; plural: ar, مفسّرون, mufassirūn). A Quranic ''tafsir'' attempts to provide elucidation, explanation, in ...

(Interpretation of the

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and

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) at the Basic Islamic Science Department of the Institute of Social Science in

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. He is married and has three children.

Career

Academics

İşler worked as associate professor for Tafsir at the Faculty of Theology of

Cumhuriyet University ) , established = , type = Public , head_label = Rector , head = Prof. Alim Yıldız , state = , students = ~ 51.544 , undergrad = , postgrad = 195677 , administrative_staff ...

Sivas Sivas (Latin and Greek: ''Sebastia'', ''Sebastea'', Σεβάστεια, Σεβαστή, ) is a city in central Turkey and the seat of Sivas Province. The city, which lies at an elevation of in the broad valley of the Kızılırmak river, is ...

, and then in

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Gazi University Gazi University ( tr, Gazi Üniversitesi) is a public university primarily located in Ankara, Turkey. It was established in 1926 by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk as Gazi Teacher Training Institute. In 1982, it was reorganized by merging with the Bolu ...

's Faculty of Education in Ankara, where he was later promoted to full professor. He served also as visiting professor at universities in

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and Saudi Arabia.

Politics

He entered politics through the ruling

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(AKP), and was elected into the

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in the 2011 general election as an MP from

. He was appointed head of the Nigeria-Turkey Interparliamentary Group. İşler served as chief advisor to the prime minister. He was Erdoğan's interpreter for Arabic language and was part of his close circle. On 26 December 2013, Emrullah İşler assumed office as a

, replacing

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

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. In 2014, İşler claimed that the

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did not amount to torture.

References

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