Faruk Çelik

Faruk Çelik MP
Minister of Food, Agriculture and Livestock
Incumbent
Assumed office 24 November 2015
Prime Minister	Ahmet Davutoğlu
Preceded by	Kutbettin Arzu
Minister of Labour and Social Security
In office 6 July 2011 – 28 August 2015
Prime Minister	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Ahmet Davutoğlu
Preceded by	Ömer Dinçer
Succeeded by	Ahmet Erdem
In office 29 August 2007 – 1 May 2009
Prime Minister	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Preceded by	Murat Başesgioğlu
Succeeded by	Ömer Dinçer
Minister of State Responsible for Religious Affairs
In office 1 May 2009 – 6 July 2011
Prime Minister	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Preceded by	Mustafa Sait Yazıcıoğlu
Succeeded by	Position abolished
Member of the Grand National Assembly
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 November 2015
Constituency	Şanlıurfa (Nov 2015)
In office 18 April 1999 – 7 June 2015
Constituency	Bursa (1999, 2002, 2007) Şanlıurfa (2011)
Personal details
Born	(1956-01-17) January 17, 1956 Yusufeli, Artvin Province, Turkey
Political party	Virtue Party (199-2001) Justice and Development Party (2001-present)
Alma mater	Uludağ University
Cabinet	60th, 61st, 62nd, 64th

Faruk Çelik (b 1956 in Yusufeli, Turkey) is the Minister of Work and Social Security of Turkey and a Member of Parliament for Bursa of the ruling Justice and Development Party.

Previously he had been a teacher and a businessman. One of the leading members of the Justice and Development Party, he was made parliamentary group leader upon his election as an MP in 2002. He was made Minister of Work in 2007.

His daughter Zeynep Çelik has been transferred from Acıbadem School of Medicine which is a recently founded private medical school to Turkey's top ranked state owned medical school Hacettepe University Medical School. Transfers between medical schools are allowed but in order to be eligible for such transfer, transfer applicant's score in national university exam should exceed the base score (lowest score to get into that university) of that medical school. Zeynep Çelik's score was well below the Hacettepe University School of Medicine's base score, so for only that year this base score match rule has been changed to make Zeynep Çelik eligible for such a transfer. This transfer has been made possible by changing this rule. This rule has been changed only for that year by AKP ruled higher education council.