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TheCabinet of Turkey (Turkish:Türkiye Kabinesi) orPresidential Cabinet (Turkish:Cumhurbaşkanlığı Kabinesi) is the body that advises the President of Turkey on executive affairs. It is composed of thePresident,Vice President and the heads of theministries. After the Council of Ministers was abolished with 2017 constitutional referendum, the Cabinet now acts as an informal advisory forum as all its powers and functions were vested to the President.
According to theTurkish constitution, ministers cannot be amember of parliament due toseparation of powers.
ThePresident of Turkey is elected by the people every five years. The president then appoints and dismiss the deputies of the president as well as the ministers according to article 104 of theConstitution. The deputies of the president and the ministers are required to take oath before the Parliament.
After the transition to apresidential system in 2017, the cabinet does not require aparliamentary approval anymore to be formed.[1]
Cabinet members and other members of theexecutive power cannot occupy any position in the Parliament. Cabinet ministers, and other executive branch appointees, must resign theirseat in Parliament to serve in the government. These restrictions are in place to alleviate external pressure and influence on ministers, and to enable them to focus on their governmental work.
The Parliament has no role in confirming presidential appointments for the cabinet. However, a majority vote in the Parliament can overturn a presidential decree. It can also table a motion requesting that the ministers to be investigated on allegations of perpetration of a crime regarding their duties. The Parliament also can dismiss the President (and thus the whole cabinet) by calling for early presidential elections. In order to achieve this, a three-fifth majority in the Parliament is required. In this case, both the presidential election as well as the parliamentary election shall be renewed.[2]
The president is the chiefexecutive leader. Therefore, the whole cabinet's tenure is linked to the president's tenure: The president's (and the cabinet's) term automatically ends, if a newly elected president sits for the first time, or if the president resigns or dies.
The President is responsible for guiding the cabinet and deciding its political direction. According to the principle ofdepartmentalization, the cabinet ministers are free to carry out their duties independently within the boundaries set by the President's political directives. The Parliament may at any time ask the President to dismiss a minister or to appoint a new minister. The President also decides the scope of each minister's duties and can nominate ministers to lead a department and so called ministers for special affairs without an own department. The president can also lead a department himself.
The president's freedom to shape its cabinet is only limited by some constitutional provisions: The president has to appoint a Minister of Defence, a Minister of Internal Affairs, Minister of Foreign Affairs and a Minister of Justice and is implicitly forbidden from also heading one of these departments, as the constitution invests these ministers with some special powers. For example, the Minister of Justice is also the President of theCouncil of Judges and Prosecutors. If two ministers disagree on a particular point, the cabinet resolves the conflict by a majority vote or the President exercises final decision authority. This often depends on the President's governing style.
The President may appoint one or more deputies after being elected, who may deputise for the President in their absence. If the President dies or is unwilling or unable to act as President, theDeputy President shall act as and exercise the powers of the President until the next President of the Republic is elected.
According to established practice, decisions on important security issues are made by theNational Security Council, a government agency chaired by the President. Pursuant to its (classified) rules of procedure, its sessions are confidential.
The cabinet regularly meets bi-weekly every Monday afternoon. Depending on how busy the schedule is, it is sometimes held on Tuesdays as well. After the meetings, apress conference is held by thehead of government or a government spokesperson. The meetings, from which minutes will be drawn up, may be deliberative and/or decision-making. The minutes will include, exclusively, the circumstances related to the time and place of its celebration, the list of attendees, the resolutions adopted and the reports presented. Therefore, the deliberations that the different members of the Government maintain, since these by law are of a secret nature, can not be collected.
The meetings of the cabinet are convened and chaired by thePresident though, in his absence, Deputy President take the responsibility to chair over the cabinet. Before the transition to the presidential system in 2017, the meetings were chaired by thePrime Minister. Occasionally, the cabinet was also chaired by the President who then attended the meetings solely on a consultative basis.
The cabinet meetings are held at thePresidential Complex, the official resident of the President and the headquarters of the government. Previously, the meetings were also held in theÇankaya Mansion and the prime minister's office.[3]
| Office | Image | Minister | Party | Took office | Left office | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 President of Turkey Cumhurbaşkanı |  | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (born 1954) | 3 June 2023 | Incumbent | ||
| Vice President of Turkey Cumhurbaşkanı Yardımcısı | .jpg) | Cevdet Yılmaz (born 1967) | 4 June 2023 | Incumbent | ||
.svg) Ministry of Justice Adalet Bakanlığı | .png) | Yılmaz Tunç (born 1971) | 4 June 2023 | Incumbent | ||
 Ministry of Family and Social Services Aile ve Sosyal Hizmetler Bakanlığı | .jpg) | Mahinur Özdemir (born 1982) | 4 June 2023 | Incumbent | ||
 Ministry of Labour and Social Security Çalışma ve Sosyal Güvenlik Bakanlığı | .jpg) | Vedat Işıkhan (born 1966) | 4 June 2023 | Incumbent | ||
_Logo.png){kind=logo} Ministry of Environment, Urbanisation and Climate Change Çevre, Şehircilik ve İklim Değişikliği Bakanlığı |  | Murat Kurum (born 1976) | 2 July 2024 | Incumbent | ||
 Ministry of Foreign Affairs Dışişleri Bakanlığı | .jpg) | Hakan Fidan (born 1968) | 4 June 2023 | Incumbent | ||
_Logo.png){kind=logo} Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources Enerji ve Tabii Kaynaklar Bakanlığı | .jpg) | Alparslan Bayraktar (born 1975) | 4 June 2023 | Incumbent | ||
_Logo.png){kind=logo} Ministry of Youth and Sports Gençlik ve Spor Bakanlığı | .jpg) | Osman Aşkın Bak (born 1966) | 4 June 2023 | Incumbent | ||
 Ministry of Treasury and Finance Hazine ve Maliye Bakanlığı | .jpg) | Mehmet Şimşek (born 1967) | 4 June 2023 | Incumbent | ||
 Ministry of the Interior İçişleri Bakanlığı | .jpg) | Ali Yerlikaya (born 1968) | 4 June 2023 | Incumbent | ||
_logo.svg){kind=logo} Ministry of Culture and Tourism Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı |  | Mehmet Ersoy (born 1968) | 4 June 2023 | Incumbent | ||
|  | Yusuf Tekin (born 1970) | 4 June 2023 | Incumbent | ||
 Ministry of National Defense Millî Savunma Bakanlığı |  | Yaşar Güler (born 1954) | 4 June 2023 | Incumbent | ||
 Ministry of Health Sağlık Bakanlığı | .png) | Kemal Memişoğlu (born 1966) | 4 June 2023 | Incumbent | ||
 Ministry of Industry and Technology Sanayi ve Teknoloji Bakanlığı | .jpg) | Mehmet Fatih Kacır (born 1984) | 4 June 2023 | Incumbent | ||
 Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry Tarım ve Orman Bakanlığı | .jpg) | İbrahim Yumaklı (born 1969) | 4 June 2023 | Incumbent | ||
 Ministry of Trade Ticaret Bakanlığı | _(cropped).jpg) | Ömer Bolat (born 1963) | 4 June 2023 | Incumbent | ||
 Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure Ulaştırma ve Altyapı Bakanlığı | .jpg) | Abdulkadir Uraloğlu (born 1966) | 4 June 2023 | Incumbent | ||
