# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mehmet-simsek
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:58:56.273Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mehmet-simsek"
name: "Mehmet Şimşek"
slug: "mehmet-simsek"
description: "Mehmet Şimşek is a Turkish politician and economist, who has been serving as the Minister of Treasury and Finance since 4 June 2023. He was the Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey from 24 November 2015 until the office's abolition on 9 July 2018. He previously served as the minister of finance from 2009 to 2015, in the cabinets of Prime Ministers of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Ahmet Davutoğlu. As a member of the Justice and Development Party, he was elected as a Member of Parliament for Gaziantep in the 2007 general election and for Batman in the 2011 general election."
tagline: "Turkish economist and statesperson (born 1967)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Turkey's_Minister_of_Finance_Mehmet_Simsek_(15943285911)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "TR"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1967-01-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump