1961 · 1982 · 1987 · 1988 ·

Recep Akdağ is the minister of health of Turkey, a position he has held since 2002, and Member of Parliament for Erzurum.

Born in Erzurum in 1960, he graduated from Faculty of Medicine, Atatürk University going on to an academic career in the field of medicine. He worked as a lecturer in pediatrics and deputy chief physician of Atatürk University's Research Hospital before being elected to Parliament in 2002.