Turkish cabinet shuffle announced
In a long waited cabinet reshuffle announced yesterday following a triple meeting between President Abdullah Gul, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Chief of General Stuff Gen. Necdet Ozel, four ministers were change. According to the new regulation announced by a statement from the Prime Minister's Office, Interior Minister Idris Naim Sahin was replaced by Muammer Guler, a former Istanbul governor. Omer Celik, a vice chairman of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), was appointed to replace Culture and Tourism Minister Ertugrul Gunay. As part of another change, Mehmet Muezzinoglu, a medical doctor and former AKP deputy for Edirne, was named Health Minister, while Nabi Avci, a former adviser to Erdogan and an architect of controversial school reforms last year, was appointed as the Education Minister to replace Recep Akdag and Omer Dincer respectively.