Turkey's new prime minister, Binali Yildirim , who is ?

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Binali Yıldırım was born in Refahiye, Erzincan Province on 20 December 1955. Dursun father's name, mother's name is Bahar. Yıldırım was educated at the İstanbul Technical University's School of Maritime, studying Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering and later received his masters degree from the same department. While serving in numerous managerial positions in the General Directorate of the Turkish Shipping Industry and the Camialtı Shipyard, he received specialised training regarding Maritime Safety and Environmental Protection from the International Maritime Organisation's World Maritime University in Sweden. While at the World Maritime University, he spent six months working with maritime administration professionals at Scandinavian and European ports. After graduation, Yıldırım served as the director general of the İstanbul Fast Ferries Company (İDO) from 1994 to 2000 while Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was Mayor of İstanbul. In attempts to make greater use of sea travel to ease transport congestion in İstanbul, Yıldırım established the İstanbul-Yalova and İstanbul-Bandırma ferry routes and oversaw the establishment of 29 ferry terminals, the commission of 22 passenger and 4 car ferries, making İDO the largest commercial maritime transportation company of its time. In 1999, he was awarded a quality medal by the Skål International group for his contributions to the modernisation of the maritime transportation and tourism industries. Elected as a Member of Parliament for İstanbul's first electoral district in the 2002 general election, he was re-elected as an MP in the 2007 general elecion as a candidate from his home province of Erzincan In the 2011 general election, Yıldırım was elected for a third consecutive time from İzmir's second electoral district. Due to the AK Party's three-term limit on its MPs, Yıldırım was unable to seek re-election for a fourth time in the June 2015 general election. However, he re-entered Parliament from İzmir's first electoral district during the November 2015 snap general election seven months later. However, he re-entered Parliament from İzmir's first electoral district during the November 2015 snap general election seven months later. Binali Yıldırım has been referred to as the AK Party's 'unchanging Transport Minister' due to his almost uninterrupted 11-year term in office. In November 2011, the portfolios of maritime and communications were merged with the Transport Ministry, with Yıldırım becoming the first Minister of Transport, Maritime and Communication Some of the important projects that take place during the ministerial positions are as follows: 17,500 kilometers of new motorways between the years 2003-2013, 29 new airports and 1,213 kilometers of high-speed railway Ankara – Eskişehir, Ankara – Konya, Ankara – İstanbul High Speed Rail project Marmaray project in Istanbul 's Asian and European sides of the submarine interconnection with the railway 3rd Bosphorus Bridge (Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge) Istanbul - Izmir Motorway and is one of the world's longest suspension bridge Izmit Bay Crossing Bridge Yıldırım has been awarded Honorary doctorates by a number of Turkish universities, as well as by the World Maritime University, Malmö and the Technical University of Berlin.[35] Leaving office in a cabinet reshuffle in 2013, Yıldırım ran as the AK Party candidate for Mayor of İzmir in the 2014 local elections but lost to the incumbent Republican People's Party (CHP) candidate Aziz Kocaoğlu. He was appointed as special advisor to Erdoğan in June 2014 and left Parliament in the June 2015 general election due to the AK Party's three-term rule for its sitting MPs. He was re-appointed as Transport Minister by Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu after being re-elected to Parliament in the November 2015 general election. Following Davutoğlu's resignation as party leader due to a breakdown in relations with President Erdoğan on 5 May 2016, Yıldırım was announced as the AK Party's next leader by the party central executive committee on 19 May and is due to be formally elected unopposed during the party's 2nd Extraordinary Congress on 22 May 2016. He is married and has 3 children and he speaks English and French.