President Erdoğan appoints new education minister

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has appointed Mahmut Özer as the country's new education minister following the resignation of Ziya Selçuk, according to a notice published early on Aug. 6 in the Official Gazette.

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Özer had been serving as a deputy education minister for three years and was previously the head of the Measuring, Selection and Placement Center (ÖSYM), the body responsible for organizing the national level university entrance examination.

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