page_title: Numan Kurtulmuş
section_title: Political career
hierarchical_section_title: Numan Kurtulmuş / Political career
caption_attribution_description: English: Numan Kurtulmuş, Minister of Culture and Tourism of the Republic of Turkey (left), Nikolina Angelkova, Minister of Tourism of the Republic of Bulgaria (right) Photo: Yordan Simeonov (EU2018BG)
context_page_description: Prof. Dr. Numan Kurtulmuş is a Turkish politician and academician, currtently the deputy chairman of Justice and Development Party.
  He served as Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey in the 62nd, 63rd, 64th and 65th AKP governments between 2014 and 2017 and Minister of Culture and Tourism between 2017 and 2018. Previously he served as the leader of Felicity Party between 2008 and 2010 and People's Voice Party between 2010 and 2012.
context_section_description: He was kicked-off politic on Virtue Party in 1998. The party has been shutted down by Constitutional Court and he joined Felicity Party. Elected as chairman at the party congress held in 2008 and has been here until 2010.  Leaded establishing the People's Voice Party (HAS Party) in 2010. Upon the proposal of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, AKP and HAS Party united in 2012. Within the framework of this combination, HAS Party has been terminated itself and Kurtulmuş joined AKP with many people.
caption: Numan Kurtulmuş meets Minister of Tourism of Bulgaria Nikolina Angelkova, 2018
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