Süleyman Soylu
Süleyman Soylu was born in Istanbul, Turkey on November 21st, 1969 and is the Politician. At the age of 54, Süleyman Soylu biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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He started politics at Democrat Party (DP) Istanbul Youth Branch in 1987. He took the positions of member of board of directorates, and chairman of the organization at youth branch of Democrat Party Istanbul.
In 1995, he was elected to the board of directorates in Gaziosmanpaşa branch, and with the congress held on 17 July 1995, he was elected as the chairman of the district at the age of 25. On 18 April 1999, he announced his candidacy for the mayor of Gaziosmanpaşa municipality which is district of Istanbul.
He became DP Istanbul Chairman on 29 April 1999 which made him the youngest chairman in the Turkey at that time. He resigned from the presidency, which lasted 3.5 years, to run for the elections to become a Member of the Parliament of Turkey in 2002. Süleyman Soylu was elected for party leadership with the 4th Extraordinary Congress of Democrat Party on 6 January 2008. After being reelected for the leadership at the 9th Statutory Congress on 15 November 2008, he led his party for 29 March 2009 local elections. On 16 May 2009, at the congress, which took place according to his will, his party leadership ended.
Afterwards, he participated in many conferences and panels upon invitations coming from various universities and civil societies all over the country.
Süleyman Soylu realized the vital importance of the change of constitution package, which was opened for referendum of 12 September 2010 for the transition and democratization of Turkey, organized a series of seminars with the title of “Democracy meetings”, and together with his friends by travelling all around Turkey, shared grounds for voting “yes”. Following these activities, he was expelled from his party.
Soylu was invited to be an AKP politician by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, then AKP Chairman and Prime Minister. Soylu joined the AKP on 5 September 2012. On 30 September 2012, with the 4th Statutory General Congress of AKP, he was elected for the Central Board of Executives, and became Deputy Chairman responsible for R&D Department.
He served as 'Minister of Labour and Social Security' in the third Davutoğlu Cabinet (24 November 2015 – 24 May 2016) and in the Yıldırım Cabinet until 31 August 2016. Then, PM Yıldırım surprisingly appointed him Minister of the Interior after he had sacked Efkan Ala.
On 10 April 2020, the Turkish government announced that a 48-hour curfew would be imposed in 31 cities due to the coronavirus pandemic. It was announced approximately 2 or 3 hours before the start of the curfew and caused panic buying. On 12 April 2020, Soylu announced his resignation, saying he was responsible for the chaos. However, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan rejected his resignation request. Before Erdoğan's rejection of the resignation, the hashtag "We don't accept the resignation,” #İstifayıKabulEtmiyoruz, quickly became a top trend on Twitter following the resignation of Soylu, a ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) favourite among supporters.
In 2021, crime leader Sedat Peker claimed that cocaine trafficking from Colombia to Turkey involved interior minister Süleyman Soylu and the son of former prime minister Binali Yıldırım. Süleyman Soylu was also blamed for providing thousands of guns to some Islamic extremist groups with SADAT during 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt. Peker also invited the public prosecutor to search for details to sue him.
As Interior Minister, Soylu has replaced at least 45 out of 65 mayors from municipalities won by the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) in the 2019 local elections with Ankara-appointed trustees over alleged affiliation with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). At least 21 of these mayors were jailed. Later in February 2021, Soylu had more than 700 HDP district and provincial chairpersons arrested. These actions received positive responses from some nationalist politicians including Devlet Bahçeli of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), but inspired condemnation from members of the opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) and human rights groups, with Human Rights Watch describing charges leveled against HDP officials as "trumped up" and "politically motivated". After Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu visited some of the jailed mayors, Soylu defended the arrests by saying "they’ve never denied, to this day, having a connection to the PKK", and threatened to "ruin" İmamoğlu if he continued "busying [himself] with other affairs".
He used a business jet owned by Sezgin Baran Korkmaz airline Borajet during the Constitutional Referendum in 2017. This was reported after he was accused of having warned Korkmaz to leave Turkey before he was apprehended.