# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tugrul-turkes
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:25:52.180Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tugrul-turkes"
name: "Tuğrul Türkeş"
slug: "tugrul-turkes"
description: "Yıldırım Tuğrul Türkeş is a Turkish economist and politician, who served as Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey from 28 August 2015 to 19 July 2017. He first joined the interim election government formed by Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu on 28 August 2015 as a Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) politician. He later defected to the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and was elected as an MP for the AKP in the November 2015 general election, continuing to serve as Deputy Prime Minister in the subsequent AKP majority government. He has been a Member of Parliament for Ankara's first electoral district since the 2007 general election and is the eldest son of the MHP's founder Alparslan Türkeş. He is the former leader of the Bright Turkey Party (ATP), which he led from 1997 to 2002."
tagline: "Turkish statesperson (born 1954)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tugrukturkes_(cropped).png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "TR"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1954-12-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/TugrulTurkes"
    handle:    "TugrulTurkes"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "Yıldırım Tuğrul Türkeş"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump