Taner Yildiz

Taner Yildiz is the the Energy and Natural Resources Minister in the Turkish government. Yildiz is a member of the Justice and Development Party.

A biographical note states that he graduated from the Istanbul Technical University as an electrical engineer and worked with the Kayseri Electricity Generation Company. He was elected to the Parliament in 2002. Taner Yıldız served as an energy adviser to the prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. On 1 May 2009, after a cabinet reshuffle he was appointed as Energy and Natural Resources Minister.

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