Recep AkdaÄŸ

Recep Akdağ ( born May 8, 1960 in Erzurum ) is a Turkish politician and former Minister of Health of the Republic of Turkey.

Akdağ is a university physician and was assistant professor of pediatrics and epidemiology at the Atatürk Üniversitesi since the early 1990s.

Since 2002 he is a Member of the ACP and from 2002 to early 2013, Minister of Health of Turkey. His responsibilities fell in 2006, the crisis surrounding the disease of bird flu H5N1 in the east of the country.

Akdağ was health minister in the cabinet already Gül and Erdoğan in the first Cabinet. He was since 29 August 2007 member of the Second Erdoğan Cabinet of the AKP government under Erdogan and was on July 6, 2011 to January 24, 2013 Health Minister again. His deputy was Nihat Tosun.