Kemal Unakıtan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Turkish politician
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Place of Birth: Domurcalı, Turkey
About Kemal Unakıtan
- Kemal Unakitan (February 14, 1946 – October 12, 2016) was the Minister of Finance of Turkey from November 2002 to May 2009 and a Member of Parliament for Istanbul of the Justice and Development Party.
- He was born in Edirne. Previously he was a board member of the Family Finance Group. During his tenure as minister of finance Unakitan presided over a number of situations primarily the Treasury's need to raise funds (!) at a time when Turkey had a large national debt and was failing to collect taxes to cover it.
- Unakitan therefore sold forestry land to raise funds for the treasury raised fuel duties and other indirect taxation plus imposed extra duties and payments such as his "permanent earthquake fund"On March 7, 2008, Unakitan received the Finance Minister of the Year Award from the business magazine The Banker.He died on October 12, 2016 after a prolonged illness.
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