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Abdüllatif Şener MP
Leader of the Turkey Party
In office 25 May 2009 – 27 August 2012
Preceded by	Founded
Succeeded by	Closed
Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey
In office 18 November 2002 – 29 August 2007
Prime Minister	Abdullah Gül Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Preceded by	Devlet Bahçeli Şükrü Sina Gürel Mesut Yılmaz
Succeeded by	Cemil Çiçek Hayati Yazıcı Nazım Ekren
Minister of Finance of Turkey
In office 28 June 1996 – 30 June 1997
Prime Minister	Necmettin Erbakan
Preceded by	Lütfullah Kayalar
Succeeded by	Zekeriya Temizel
Member of the Grand National Assembly
In office 7 July 2018 – 7 April 2023
Constituency	Konya ( 2018)
In office 6 November 1991 – 23 July 2007
Constituency	Sivas ( 1991, 1995, 1999, 2002)
Personal details
Born	1954 (age 69–70) Gürün, Sivas Province, Turkey
Nationality	Turkish (Karachay)
Political party	CHP (2018-2023) TP (2009-2012) AKP (2001-2009) FP (1998-2001) RP (1991-1998)
Alma mater	Ankara University, Gazi University
Occupation	Politician
Profession	Finance, academic

Abdüllatif Şener (born 1954) is a Turkish politician. He was Minister of Finance of Turkey from 1996 to 1997 and Deputy Prime Minister from 2002 to 2007, under Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

Life and career

Şener was born in Gürün, Sivas Province in Turkey. He graduated from the School of Political Sciences at Ankara University. He earned his PhD degree from Gazi University in Ankara. He lectured on finance at Gazi University and Hacettepe University, before he served as a controller in the Department of Revenues within the Ministry of Finance.

Şener entered politics and was elected in 1991 as deputy of Sivas Province from the Islamist Welfare Party (Turkish: Refah Partisi, abbreviated RP). He was Minister of Finance from 1996 to 1997. Following the ban of the Welfare Party in 1998, he became a member of the newly established Virtue Party (Turkish: Fazilet Partisi, abbreviated FP), which was also banned after three years in 2001. He was co-founder of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in 2001. He was elected to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey as deputy of Sivas Province, and he served under the AKP government as Deputy Prime Minister from 2002 to 2007.

He did not run for a seat in parliament in the 2007 general elections. After leaving the AK Party, he formed a new party; it was officially announced on 27 May 2009 and named the Turkey Party (Türkiye Partisi). ^[1]

Şener announced that the Turkey Party was officially closed on 27 August 2012 due to difficulties in maintaining its political goals outside of parliament. ^[2]

In an interview with Halk TV, ^[3] Şener strongly condemned the AK Party's handling of the 2013 protests in Turkey.

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