Cevdet Yılmaz

Cevdet Yılmaz (born 1967) is a Turkish politician who has been Vice President of Turkey since June 2023 ^{1 2}.

Yılmaz was born on 1 April 1967 in Şabanköy, Bingöl, to a Zaza family; the Turkish article names his parents as Kemal and Fatma ^{1 2}. He finished high school in Bingöl in 1983, graduated with high honours in public administration from Middle East Technical University in 1988, took a master's in international relations at the University of Denver in 1994 and a doctorate in political science and public administration at Bilkent University ^{1 2}.

Yılmaz joined the State Planning Organization in 1989 and became its Director General of EU Relations in 2003 ¹. Elected to parliament for Bingöl in 2007, he became a minister of state in May 2009 and Minister of Development in July 2011, served as deputy prime minister in the interim election government of August to November 2015, and returned to the development ministry until 2016 ^{1 2}. He chaired parliament's Planning and Budget Commission from 2020, and on 3 June 2023 President Erdoğan appointed him Vice President of Turkey ^{1 2}. No text read for this record names a faith for Yılmaz himself - his Zaza origin is ancestry, not attestation - so his faith is recorded as unknown ^{1 2 3 4}.

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