constituency deputy predecessor successor birth_place president party office primeminister birth_date term_start spouse image article_title term_end name alma_mater
İstanbul -lrb- 1991 , 1995 , 1999 -rrb- deniz -rrb- erdal İnönü -lrb- 1993-1995 -rrb- murat karayalçın -lrb- 1993-1995 baykal -rrb- hikmet Çetin -lrb- 1993-1995 -rrb- -lrb- 1995-1996 -rrb- necmettin cevheri -lrb- 1995 süleyman demirel nahit menteşe emre gönensay süleyman demirel mesut yılmaz bülent ecevit İsmail cem mehmet ağar istanbul , turkey süleyman demirel true path party prime 36th minister of foreign affairs leader of the true path minister party minister of state with responsibility for the economy member of of the grand national assembly turkey deputy prime minister of turkey necmettin erbakan necmettin erbakan süleyman demirel 24 may 1946 25 13 june 1993 21 november 1991 20 october 1991 june 1993 28 june 1996 28 june 1996 Özer uçuran Çiller 220px tansu Çiller
 6 14 december 2002 25 june 1993 18 november 2002 march 1996 30 june 1997 30 june 1997 tansu Çiller robert college university of new hampshire university of connecticut
tansu Çiller

tansu penbe Çiller -lrb- ; born 24 may 1946 -rrb- is a turkish academician , economist , and politician who served as the 30th prime minister of turkey from 1993 to 1996 .
she is turkey 's first and only female prime minister to date .
as the leader of the true path party , she went on to concurrently serve as deputy prime minister of turkey and as minister of foreign affairs between 1996 and 1997 .
as a professor of economics , Çiller was appointed as minister of state with responsibility for the economy by prime minister süleyman demirel in 1991 .
when demirel was elected as president in 1993 , Çiller was elected leader of the true path party and succeeded demirel as prime minister .
her premiership preceded over the intensifying armed conflict between the turkish armed forces and the kurdish separatist pkk , resulting in Çiller enacting numerous reforms to national defence and implementing the castle plan .
with a better equipped military , Çiller 's government was able to persuade the united states to register the pkk as a terrorist organisation , while controversially enlisting the help of informal organisations -lrb- known as the deep state -rrb- to fight against kurdish separatists and the armenian nationalist group asala .
shortly after winning the 1994 local elections , large-scale capital flight due to the lack of confidence in Çiller 's budget deficit targets led to the turkish lira and foreign currency reserves almost collapsing .
amid the subsequent economic crisis and austerity measures , her government signed the eu-turkey customs union in 1995 .
her government was alleged to have supported the 1995 azeri coup d'état attempt and presided over an escalation of tensions with greece after claiming sovereignty over the imia/kardak islets .
although the dyp came third in the 1995 general election , she remained as prime minister until necmettin erbakan formed a government in 1996 with Çiller becoming deputy prime minister and minister of foreign affairs .
the susurluk car crash in 1996 and the subsequent susurluk scandal revealed the relations between extra-legal organisations and Çiller 's government .
revelations that Çiller had employed individuals such as abdullah Çatlı led to a decline of popularity .
erbakan 's government fell following a military memorandum in 1997 and the dyp declined further in the 1999 general election .
despite coming third in the 2002 general election , Çiller 's dyp won less than 10 % of the vote and thus lost all parliamentary representation , which led to her resignation as party leader and departure from active politics .
