Cevdet Yılmaz
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Cevdet Yılmaz is a Turkish
Turkey
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 politician.

After completing high school in Bingöl
Bingöl
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 in 1983, Yılmaz graduated from the METU
Middle East Technical University
Middle East Technical University is a public technical university located in Ankara, Turkey...

 Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Public Administration. He graduated with honors in 1988. In 1989 he started working at the State Planning Organization (Devlet Planlama Teşkilatı).

Yılmaz went to the United States
United States
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 between the years 1992 and 1994 and gratuated for the International Relations Department at the University of Denver
University of Denver
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. At the Bilkent University
Bilkent University
İhsan Doğramacı Bilkent University, commonly referred to as Bilkent University or Bilkent, is the first private, nonprofit university in Turkey with the fundamental aim of creating a center of excellence in higher education and research...

 Department of Political Science and Public Administration Yılmaz received a doctorate. In 2003, Yılmaz was appointed for the General Directorate of EU Relations.

In the elections of 2007
Turkish general election, 2007
Turkey's 16th general election was held on July 22, 2007 and resulted in a resounding victory for the incumbent Justice and Development Party...

 Yılmaz was elected as Member of Parliament for Bingöl
Bingöl
Bingöl is a city in Eastern Turkey. It is also known as Çabakcur , which means violent water in Armenian. It is surrounded by mountains and a large number of glacier lakes, hence the name . Lately, the town has become a popular tourist destination...

. On May 1, 2009 he was appointed as State Minister in the second cabinet of Erdoğan
Erdoğan II Cabinet
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.

He should not be confused with the Dutch
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-Turkish mass murderer Cevdet Yılmaz (born 1956, nicknamed Ted de Turk).

External links

Bakanı Biography of Cevdet Yılmaz at the website of AK Party
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