Ali Coşkun - Wikipedia

Ali Coşkun is Turkey's minister of Industry and Trade. He was born in Başpınar village of Kemaliye, Erzincan in 1939. He graduated from the Faculty of Engineering, Yıldız Technical University and served as President of the Turkish Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges and as Vice President of the Islamic Countries Union of Chambers. Coşkun was elected as Istanbul deputy for the third electoral district. He is married with two children and speaks German and English.^[1]

He took sides during the controversy about the movie Valley of the Wolves Iraq, and predicted that it would make it to film history, emphasizing "God bless the Turks."^[2]^[3]

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^ Office of the Prime Minister Archived 2009-03-07 at the Wayback Machine, Directorate General of Press and Information
^ Sheep in wolf's clothing? Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine, by Yeşİm Erdem Holland, Turkish Daily News, February 23, 2006
^ "Coskun sagte voraus, der Film werde in die türkische Kinogeschichte eingehen"; Abgedreht: In Ankara schwärmt sogar die Frau des Premiers von dem Streifen, der Außenminister distanziert sich Archived 2006-02-21 at the Wayback Machine by Thomas Seibert, German Daily Der Tagesspiegel, January 20, 2006

v t e Gül Cabinet (2002–2003)
Cabinet
Prime Minister	Abdullah Gül (2002–2003)
Deputy Prime Ministers	Mehmet Ali Şahin (2002–2003) Abdüllatif Şener (2002–2003) Ertuğrul Yalçınbayır (2002–2003)
Minister of State	Mehmet Aydın (2002–2003) Beşir Atalay (2002–2003) Ali Babacan (2002–2003) Kürşad Tüzmen (2002–2003)
Minister of Justice	Cemil Çiçek (2002–2003)
Minister of National Defense	Mehmet Vecdi Gönül (2002–2003)
Minister of Interior	Abdülkadir Aksu (2002–2003)
Minister of Foreign Affairs	Yaşar Yakış (2002–2003)
Minister of Finance	Kemal Unakıtan (2002–2003)
Minister of National Education	Erkan Mumcu (2002–2003)
Minister of Public Works and Settlement	Zeki Ergezen (2002–2003)
Minister of Health	Recep Akdağ (2002–2003)
Minister of Transport and Communication	Binali Yıldırım (2002–2003)
Minister of Agriculture	Sami Güçlü (2002–2003)
Minister of Labour and Social Security	Murat Başesgioğlu (2002–2003)
Minister of Industry and Commerce	Ali Coşkun (2002–2003)
Minister of Energy and Natural Resources	Mehmet Hilmi Güler (2002–2003)
Minister of Culture	Hüseyin Çelik (2002–2003)
Minister of Tourism	Güldal Akşit (2002–2003)
Minister of Environment	İmdat Sütlüoğlu (2002–2003)
Minister of Forestry	Osman Pepe (2002–2003)

v t e First Erdoğan Cabinet (2003–2007)
Cabinet
Prime Minister	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (2003–2014)
Deputy Prime Ministers	Abdullah Gül (2003–2007) Mehmet Ali Şahin (2003–2007) Abdüllatif Şener (2003–2007)
Minister of State	Ali Babacan (2003–2007) Güldal Akşit (2003-2005) Nimet Çubukçu (2005–2007) Mehmet Aydın (2003–2007) Kürşad Tüzmen (2003–2007) Beşir Atalay (2003–2007)
Minister of Justice	Cemil Çiçek (2003–2007) Fahri Kasırga (2007)
Minister of National Defense	Mehmet Vecdi Gönül (2003–2007)
Minister of the Interior	Abdülkadir Aksu (2003–2007) Osman Güneş (2007)
Minister of Foreign Affairs	Abdullah Gül (2003–2007)
Minister of Finance	Kemal Unakıtan (2003–2007)
Minister of National Education	Hüseyin Çelik (2003–2007)
Minister of Public Works and Settlement	Zeki Ergezen (2003-2007) Faruk Nafız Özak (2005–2007)
Minister of Health	Recep Akdağ (2003–2007)
Minister of Transport and Communication	Binali Yıldırım (2003–2007) İsmet Yılmaz (2007)
Minister of Agriculture	Sami Güçlü (2003–2005) Mehmet Mehdi Eker (2005–2007)
Minister of Labour and Social Security	Murat Başesgioğlu (2003–2007)
Minister of Industry and Commerce	Ali Coşkun (2003–2007)
Minister of Energy and Natural Resources	Mehmet Hilmi Güler (2003–2007)
Minister of Culture and Tourism	Erkan Mumcu (2003–2005) Atilla Koç (2005–2007)
Minister of Environment and Forestry	Osman Pepe (2003–2007)

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