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Mehmet Şimşek
Şimşek at the World Economic Forum on Europe and Central Asia in October 2008
Minister of Finance of Turkey
Incumbent
Assumed office  1 May 2009
Prime Minister	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Preceded by	Kemal Unakıtan
Born	1 January 1967 (1967-01-01) (age 42) Batman, Turkey
Nationality	Turkish
Political party	Justice and Development Party
Religion	Sunni Islam

Mehmet Şimşek (born 1 January 1967) is a Minister of State of Turkey, responsible for economics, foreign trade and the Treasury. He is a member of Parliament for Gaziantep of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP).

He was appointed to this position in August 2007. A neo-liberal monetarist economist,^{[citation needed]} previously he worked as head of economic and strategic research for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa at Merrill Lynch. At this time he had a number of contacts with the Turkish authorities and the Central Bank and had worked with the AKP government on economic policy.

He is now faced with coping with an economy heavily in debt and in need of careful management, especially sectors such as textiles which are in flux and suffering heavily from competition from China.^[1]

Şimşek has both British and Turkish citizenships.

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• his website